The main character of the film is the Wizard, who, in order to entertain himself and his wife, invents fairy tales. The heroes of fairy tales come to life, come to his house and begin to live their own lives. Another fairy tale turned out to be very sad.

Many years ago, the Wizard came up with a "reverse fairy tale": he turned the bear into a man and decided that he would return to its original state when the princess fell in love with him and kissed him. And so the young man - a former bear - returns to the Wizard and meets a beautiful girl in his house, whom he really liked. To his horror, she turned out to be a princess; The wizard made it so that the king, who was passing by with his daughter and retinue, turned to his estate. The bear and the princess met, and when the princess wanted to kiss the Bear, he ran away so as not to turn into a beast before her eyes.

The princess, dressed in men's clothes, fled from her father, promising to shoot anyone who followed her. The lovers met at the Emilia tavern. In anger, the Bear goes to the innkeeper and asks to lock him up; the tavern is covered with snow and it is impossible to get out of it. The innkeeper gives him the key to the room, and in the meantime he draws attention to one of the princess's maids of honor and recognizes in her his first love - Emilia, after whom his tavern was named. The innkeeper and Emilia decide to help the quarreling lovers.

The princess locks herself in a room on the second floor of the inn. The king orders the casting of lots, and the lot falls to the court minister-administrator. The latter comes to the princess, and a shot is fired: ahead of the princess, the administrator himself shoots at her, but misses. In anger, the princess decides to marry the “first comer” and calls the administrator her fiancé.

The king decides to play a wedding. Desperate that his love is being taken away from him, the Bear decides to tell the princess everything about the kiss that turns him into an animal. The upset princess says goodbye to him forever. The wedding cortege is leaving. The Hunter and the Bear remain in the tavern. The Wizard appears and reproaches the Bear for cowardice and cowardice. According to the Wizard, he does not love the princess enough to sacrifice a human appearance for her. The Bear makes an agreement with the ambitious Hunter: if ever the Bear kisses the princess and turns into an animal, the Hunter will immediately kill him.

Several years pass. The country is ruled by a minister-administrator. The king has completely withdrawn from affairs and does not want to hear about anything that is happening around. The princess is slowly dying of yearning for the Bear.

The day of the princess's death is approaching, and the Bear and the Hunter appear in the Wizard's house. The bear kisses the princess, but, to the disappointment of the Hunter, remains human. The wizard explains this paradox as "an ordinary miracle." The heroes of fairy tales leave the house of the wizard, who turns out to be just a decoration. This decoration burns out, and the Wizard is left alone.
Cast

☆ Oleg Yankovskiy   ☆ Aleksander Abdulov   ☆  Evgeniy Leonov   

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OSTROVSKIY VASILIY IGOREVICH (1936-2012) - Soviet graphic artist, poster artist. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (since 1963). Honored Artist of Russia (1997).

Was born in Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow Art Institute named after V.I.Surikov in 1960 with a degree in poster. He studied with famous teachers M.M. Cheremnykh and N.A.Ponomarev.

Vasily Ostrovsky made a significant contribution to the development of Russian poster in all its genre manifestations. At the beginning of his career in the 1960s, he gained fame, working in film posters. He executed posters for such films as “9 days of one year”, “Jamilya”, “An ordinary miracle”, “The Deer King” and many others, and were highly appreciated by the audience and artistic community. Ostrovsky also worked in the field of social and political posters, collaborated with the publishing houses "Fine Art", "Soviet Artist", "Poster" - "Panorama".

Author of film posters: "On the Threshold of Life" (1961), "9 Days of One Year" (1962), "Seven Nurses" (1962), "Vienna Woods" (1962), "How Toasts Are Born" (1963), "To Me , Mukhtar! " (1964), "A Man Walking Through the Wall" (1964), "Frost" (1965), "An Ordinary Miracle" (1965), "Happy Holidays, Girls!" (1966), Children's Film Festival. Cartoon-66 "(1966)," Solidarity, peace, friendship! " (1968), The Diamond Arm (1969), The Stolen Month (1969), The Golden Boy (1969), The Kid and Carlson (1969), The White Sun of the Desert (1970), The Wedding ( 1970), The Deer King (1970) and others.

Author of political posters: "Dexterity, beauty, health" (1960), "We affirm forever the union of science and labor" (1965), "Glory to the people - the winner! 1941-1945 "(1970)," Solidarity, peace, friendship "(1971)," Peace "(1972)," On green fields and on a white track we will bring sports glory to the country! " (1973), "We will grow a worthy replacement for our famous athletes!" (1973), "I benefit from training: I will be strong, I will be agile!" (1973), “The people and the party are one! All for the elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR! " (1974), "Let the atom serve peace, not war!" (1974), “Take care of your native nature” (1975), “Let's preserve cultural monuments! Let's restore what was destroyed! " (1976), "Land reclamation - the fields!" (1977), "Glory to Peaceful Labor" (1977), "Constitution of the USSR" (1978), "Broader Front of Scientific Works" (1978), "BAM - All-Union Shock Komsomol Construction Project" (1979), "April 12 - Cosmonautics Day" (1980; jointly with V. S. Karakashev), "Human health is a common property" (1982), "Glory to Labor" (1982), "April 12, Cosmonautics Day" (1982), "Glory to Peaceful Labor" (1984), "Happy New Year!" (1984), "April 12 - Cosmonautics Day!" (1985), "Do not destroy yourself!"; triptych "Constitution of the USSR" (1978).

He constantly participated with his posters and graphics in all major exhibitions, all-Union, Russian, Moscow and group. Held two personal exhibitions. Participant of the 1st, 2nd and 6th Biennials in Warsaw and other international exhibitions and competitions. V.I.Ostrovsky's work has been awarded numerous diplomas and awards. In the 90s, being the chairman of the poster section and a member of the board of the Moscow Union of Artists, he initiated the organization and participated in several exhibitions of topical socio-political posters, representing the author's, civic position of Moscow poster artists. The works of V. I. Ostrovsky, reviews about them in the mass press and special editions were repeatedly published, several of them were included in the major edition “Russia XX Century. The history of the country in a poster ”.

Since 2002, V. I. Ostrovsky taught the discipline "Poster" at the Department of Graphic Art. Being a high-class professional with a bright creative personality, he managed in a relatively short time to instill in students an understanding of such a specific genre of fine art as a poster. This is evidenced by the fairly large-scale participation of his students at the 7th All-Russian exhibition of posters in Voronezh in 2005, at the All-Russian and Moscow International exhibitions, as well as at the jubilee (75 years of the Moscow Union of Artists) Exhibition of Moscow poster artists in 2007. In general, more than thirty students of V. I. Ostrovsky were able to show their posters at exhibitions and competitions of a fairly high level, which was marked with diplomas and prizes.

No less significant is the creative contribution of Vasily Ostrovsky to the art of graphics. He created several cycles of drawings, formed as a result of constant and long-term work. These are landscapes, still lifes, nudity, portraits, etc. The artist was fluent in various graphic techniques and materials. Among them are gouache, sepia, sanguine, ink - brush, pen, pencil. Over the past few years and at the present time, V. I. Ostrovsky has been working on a series of drawings based on the subjects of ancient mythology.

V. I. Ostrovsky's circulation posters are in the State Museum of Political History of Russia (GMPIR), the State Central Museum of Cinema (GTsMK), the Volsk Museum of Local Lore (VKM), the Gelendzhik Museum of History and Local Lore (GIKM), the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, the Museum of the History of Kronshtadt, Rybinsk Museum-Reserve, Saratov Regional Museum of Local Lore (SOMK), Stavropol State Museum-Reserve (SGMZ), Nevyansk State Historical and Architectural Museum (NGIAM), Novomoskovsk Historical and Art Museum (NIHM), OIHM im. IN Kramskoy, Central Air Force Museum, private collections; originals - in the Yaroslavl Art Museum (YAHM), the State Literary Museum. V. I. Dahl, private collection.


The earliest known poster of Grebenshchikov is dedicated to the advertisement of the Izhevsk spring mineral water (1936). In 1947 he began to work in the field of political posters, together with G. Verite he drew a poster for the famous film "Circus" (1947), in 1949 - for the film "Foundling". Subsequently, he was constantly engaged in movie posters. One of the most significant film poster makers of the 50s-80s.

He worked in the field of social and political posters, collaborated with the State Publishing House "Art". The author of the posters: "Long live the 32nd anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution!" (1949), "Glory to the excellent calculation!" (1950), "Breed Vladimir Heavy Trucks!" (1950). For the publishing house of the Main Directorate of Film Hire - "Glavkinoprokat" made a poster "Kotovsky" (1951). The famous propaganda poster of Grebenshchikov "Read, envy, I am a citizen of the Soviet Union!" (1967), performed together with the poster artist E.V. Abezgus; author of the poster "Your Father went from battle to battle, so let the warrior of peaceful years burn like a memory over ..." (1978).

Most of all, the artist was engaged in advertising posters of feature films for the publishing house "Reklamfilm", they brought him fame: "School of Courage" (1954), "Noble Nest" (1969), "Communists" (1969), "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" ( 1972), "At will" (1973), "Torpedo bombers" (1983), "Optimistic tragedy" (1987).

E. S. Grebenshchikov's circulation posters are in the collection of the Isofond of the RSL (the Russian State Library, formerly named after V. I. Lenin), the funds of the Museum of Cosmonautics, and private Russian and foreign collections.