Father Frost / Morozko | Aleksandr Khvylya, Natalya Sedykh

Father Frost / Morozko | Aleksandr Khvylya, Natalya Sedykh | Hilarious!

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	Father Frost / Morozko Aleksandr Khvylya, Natalya Sedykh Image Entertainment, 2001 average customer review:based on 23 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Based on popular Russian fairy tales, Father Frost is a beautifully costumed musical about Nastenka, a sweet girl who lives with her wicked stepmother and is forced to do all the work of the house. Nastenka falls in love with Ivan, a fine young man from the village who is turned into a bear, while Nastenka is sent to the woods to freeze by her stepmother. Will the two young lovers ever reunite? Only the good wizard Father Frost can make it possible.

beautiful film

I'm really pleased that this is on DVD and that so many other reviewers share my feelings about this film. First of all, this is a fine movie for children to watch, unlike the garbage released today. But for older viewers this movie is all the more amazing. To put it lightly, this is a tripped out tour de force of talking mushrooms, huts on fowls legs, man-bear transformations, and a man with a very bad haircut. The most amazing thing about this film is that something completely bizzare happens in every scene. Example: when the hero finds his future wife(sorry I'm not even going to bother trying to transcribe the names) she is watering a dead tree stump, "so that it will sprout flowers." Later when he is turned into a bear(!) the flowers grow and reassure her that he is alright. I wish I could write stuff like this. The special effects are horrible, but would you want it any other way? I would recommend this film to any parent who wants an imaginative and clean film for their child, and those who enjoy classic/obscure/budget cinema.

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Hilarious!

I've never felt the urge to write a review till now.

I just reviewed this film the night before writing this, and this movie was absolutely hilarious!!!! Of course, I'm not familiar with the original Russian fairy tale, but seriously I couldn't stop laughing! I'm a huge collector of ususual films, and this one blows others right out of the water! The weird acting and dialog, was too much!!! Mushroom people, a wandering man with a bear head, the sun obeying a little girl's will in waiting to rise till she finished knitting the last row on a stocking, a cabin that walks around on giant chicken feet, flying tree people, an oinking wooded pig sled, ... the extremely odd sequences in this film never seem to end!!! |

Seriously it's the weirdest thing I've seen since "Earth and Moon in Love"!

Guaranteed, to be placed next to other favorite films of sheer random weirdness like "K. Gordon Murray's Santa Claus", "Troll 2", "Mr. Vampire 3", or even "Crazy Sufari: The Gods Must Be Crazy pt. 3"!

This film holds an honorable place in next week's Incredibly Strange Movie Night :) Forget the MST3K version, this film is a total riot by itself!

- ISMN & The Lost Media Archive

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How Did They Do It?

And by, "How did they do it?" I mean, "How did they manage to make this movie so good considering the title character is totally absent until the halfway point of the film?" That's right. Jack Frost doesn't show up at all until the movie's half over. Yet the movie is fantastic. Let's take a guided tour through it.

First we see our heroine Nastenka knitting stockings at the command of her evil stepmother. She's a pretty girl with an ugly sister. Her stepmother spoils the ugly sister while she's treated as a slave.

Nastenka is able to finish knitting the stockings by the deadline her stepmother sets only because she begs the sun to turn back and rise at a later time. Her reward for meeting the deadline is getting more chores to do.

The film cuts to the male lead of the movie, Ivanushka (or Ivan). Ivanushka is robbed by bearded thugs, but he doesn't seem to care. While the thugs are dividing up his money, he throws their clubs into the air and says they'll come back down to Earth next winter.

Ivanushka runs into a magic mushroom elf guy who beats him in a game of hide and seek. The mushroom guy thanks him for the game and gives him a bow and arrow set. Ivanushka doesn't show proper thanks to the mushroom guy for the kind gesture, so the mushroom guy waits for an opportune time to mess up Ivan's looks.

No Jack Frost yet.

Shortly after Ivanushka meets our heroine Nastenka and asks the beautiful girl to marry him, the mushroom guy turns Ivan's handsome into the head of an ugly bear. Ivanushka blames Nastenka for turning him into a freak and runs away.

After Ivanushka figures out the mushroom guy was behind his transformation, he tries to reverse the spell by doing a good deed. It isn't until he forgets about his own needs and finally does a good deed out of true altruism that the mushroom guy sets Ivanushka back to normal.

Suddenly winter hits. Ivanushka is looking for Nastenka to apologize for blaming her. Little does he know Nashtenka was abandoned in the woods by her evil stepmother. Thankfully, JACK FROST shows up to save her!! Unfortunately for Nastenka, she touches Jack's wand by mistake and freezes herself.

Ivanushka asks an old witch for help finding Nastenka, and the witch isn't really nice. She commands a squad of trees to kill him but her plan backfires. She's forced to help Ivan out. She tells Ivanushka to follow her magic pig-shaped sleigh through the snow and it will lead her to Nastenka. Sure enough it does, and he finds the girl he wants to marry frozen in Jack Frost's house.

How will Nastenka ever thaw out? You'll have to watch Jack Frost to find out. There are other ways of finding out too, but they're not nearly as fun. This classic fairytale is highly recommended for all ages.

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Very Entertaining!

I love this film! Well technically it's a kid's film and it ended up on MST300. Well yes it was really silly, but it was fun to watch! I couldn't find a time that I was board to tears.

"WARNING POSSIBLE SPOILERS"

Once there was a pretty young girl with a father and an evil stepmother and fat, stupid and ugly stepsister. Her stepmother has no love for the girl, the girl's name is Nastenka. She can somehow talk to the roosters and make the flowers grow from her tears. She and her father are forced to do house chours, especially her.

Meanwhile in a distant village, there is a very handsome young man named Ivanushka, or Ivan for sort. Well he's handsome all right, but he's so vain that he holds up a mirror singing about how beautiful he is, how hilarous! He lets himself get robbed, plays a game with the Mushroom sorcerer, but then when he acts rude to the Mushroom sorcerer, even after he gives him a bow and arrow, the Mushroom sorcerer decides to play a cruel, but good trick on Ivan.

Well Ivan is out searching for a wife. Well this actor that plays him looks to be about in his late twenties while the actoress that plays Nastenka looks to be about in her teens. Well then he meets Nastenka, he's taken by her beauty and asks her to marry him, she rejects, and he sees some bears across the stream, and decides to prove he's worth to her by killing the bears. She gets mad and puts a bucket over his head, and when she takes it off he's a bear. Well what do you know, it's the curse that the Mushroom sorcerer put on him. Well Nastenka faints at the sight of him. Everyone else runs away from him. And in order to get his handsome self back he has to do some good deeds.

Well he does some good deeds and he's back to normal, and he's ready to meet up with Nastenka again! And a lot of events lead to their meeting, from Baba Yaga to Father Frost. And I'll end the spoilers here.

You'll have to watch the movie for yourself, I'll warn you, it might be a little silly by American standerds, but hey it's a kids movie! Don't take it too seroiusly! Watch it and have a good time! Who knows, maybe you might feel like a kid again! I know I did!

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Winter Holidays in the USSR

"Jack Frost" is a wonderfully absurd movie. The hero has a Prince Valiant hairdo (de rigeur in bad movies,for some reason) He runs into random mushroom people,gets turned into a bear,falls in love,meets up with the witch Baba Yaga in her chicken house. Very surreal. It has PLENTY of heavy-handed moralizing. The good,beautiful daughter is treated as a slave while her lazy,ugly,fat stepsister constantly eats. The plot is incredibly complicated for a fairy tale. At one point,the hero is chasing a golden pig sled. Jack Frost,the secularized Father Christmas of the Soviet Union,appears towards the end to mete out justice. It's a laugh-a-minute "Christmas holiday special" right up there with the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special. (The MST3K version is a hoot)

"Jack Frost" shows what happens when,to quote CS Lewis,it's "always winter,but never Christmas."

Russia gave Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekov and Pyotr Tchaikovsky to the world...but it also gave hilarious B-movies like this. It's a "winter holiday" treat-to be enjoyed with egg nog, gingerbread, tea from the samovar...and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians!

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