The Magical Portrait
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Once, before Christmas, Ivan was predicted to meet a foreign beauty. Forest sorceress for the kindness of a young man gave him a magical portrait of a Chinese girl named Xiao Qing. Her beauty struck Ivan in the heart, and he fell in love with no memory. Suddenly, the portrait came to life, the girl told the young man an amazing story. It turns out that the evil sorcerer took her from her parents against her will to make her his wife. The girl’s brother painted a portrait, where the soul of Xiao Qing moved, and the villain got only a barely living body, an insensitive doll. Now the sorcerer is looking for this portrait to regain the girl’s soul...
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Cast
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Sergey Shnyryov
Ivan
Known for
The Man Who Saved the World
Li Gao
Xiao Qing
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谍·莲花
Ariadna Shengelaia
Sorceress
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Investigator by Profession
The Eccentrics
Valentina Telichkina
Ivan's mother
Known for
Brigada
The Bolshoi
Vladimir Antonik
Knyaz
Also in
Last Summer of Childhood
Heroes of Envell
Irina Bezrukova
Malachite Fairy
Known for
Kolya
The Snow Queen: Mirror Lands
Andrey Martynov
Titus
Known for
The Dawns Here Are Quiet
Tamara Sidorenko
Titus's wife
Also in
Encore, Once More Encore!
Children of Monday
Anna Markova
Motya
Natalya Goncharova
Innkeeper
Also in
Infinity
Roxelana
Gennadi Vasilyev Director · Shi U. Zhang Writer Dmitri Rybnikov Composer
First release July 31, 1997 · Produced in China, Russia · Production Sang I
Production
Rakurs
Production
Sang I
Production
China · Russia
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Original title
Волшебный портрет
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · July 31, 1997
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