New Adventures of Puss in Boots

New Adventures of Puss in Boots (1958)

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Lyuba, a daughter of King of Chess is kidnapped by playing Cards... Young Vanya and his best friend - Puss in the boots - are trying to rescue Lyuba.

Date of release
1958-05-27
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 24m
Genres
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Director
Aleksandr Rou

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Puss in Boots

New Adventures of Puss in Boots is a 1958 Soviet fairy tale film directed by Alexander Rou. The script was written by Sergey Mikhalkov and combined elements of classic West European fairy tales including "Puss in Boots" and "The Love for Three Oranges".

Production history

Sergey Mikhalkov based the screenplay on his earlier children's play 'A Merry Dream, or Laughter and Tears' (1945), the story of which he had adapted from Carlo Gozzi's play The Love for Three Oranges (1761). His first draft of the script was rejected by Gorky Film Studio, as was a new version entitled 'In the Land of Games' that he submitted in 1956, prior to successfully reworking the material as 'New Adventures of Puss in Boots' in 1957.

This was director Alexander Rou's first fairy tale film of the Thaw era, and his first film in this genre since Kashchey the Immortal (1945). Although its ideological perspective reflected the far-reaching changes that had occurred in Soviet culture and society during the intervening years, the film features many typical examples of Rou's visual style and use of special effects as well as some of his favourite actors, including Georgy Millyar who…

The film was released in the Soviet Union on May 27, 1958, where it was seen by an estimated 15 million viewers.

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