The Snow Maiden (Снегурочка, 1952) by Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya

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The Snow Maiden
Снегурочка
Snegurochka (ru)
La doncella de nieve (es)
Snegourotchka. La Dame des neiges (fr)
Snehulienka (sk)
Snežana (sr)

Year 1952
Director(s) Ivanov-Vano Ivan
Snezhko-Blotskaya Aleksandra
Studio(s) Soyuzmultfilm
Language(s) Russian
Genre(s) Folklore & myth (Rus./East Slavic)
Literature (Rus./East Slavic)
Musical/Opera
Romance
Animation Type(s)  Drawn (cel)
Length 01:05:16
Wordiness 12.09
Animator.ru profile Ru, En
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Subtitles:
Snegurochka.1952.en.1.25fps.1737502925.srt
Date: January 21 2025 23:42:05
Language: English
Quality: ok
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Creator(s): Edward Agate, Eus, Niffiwan, Kuroku

Snegurochka.1952.es.1.25fps.1353904228.srt
Date: November 26 2012 04:30:28
Language: Spanish
Quality: unknown
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Creator(s): Eus, Kuroku

Snegurochka.1952.fr.1.25fps.1393549111.srt
Date: February 28 2014 00:58:31
Language: French
Quality: needs_work
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Creator(s): Eus, Patri©k

Snegurochka.1952.ru.1.25fps.1736757443.srt
Date: January 13 2025 08:37:23
Language: Russian
Quality: unknown
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Creator(s): Alla Ryabtseva, Galina Lysenko, Niffiwan

Snegurochka.1952.sk.1.25fps.1592808336.srt
Date: June 22 2020 06:45:36
Language: Slovak
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Creator(s): M. M.

Snegurochka.1952.sr.1.25fps.1359822014.srt
Date: February 02 2013 16:20:14
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Description:

The daughter of Spring and Frost, the snow maiden (Snegurochka) has come of age and is sent to live with mortal men, in a tsardom where the sun god Yarilo is worshipped. Based on the 1873 play by Ostrovsky, the 1881 opera by Rimsky-Korsakov and Russian folklore.

The film's script is a mixture of the play's and the opera's, though it is also much shorter than both (the opera being about 3.5-hours long). Rotoscoping was used heavily in the animation, as was popular in the early 1950s in the USSR.

The first video above has better colour (especially in the darker parts of the image), but the second video has more of the right border visible.

Ostrovskiy's 1873 play: Full original text

Rimsky-Korsakov's 1881 opera:
Original Russian libretto
Condensed musical score with Russian libretto
Condensed musical score with English libretto by Edward Agate
English Libretto from unknown author, Brilliant Classics

 

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