Goldfish
Золотая рыбка
Synopsis
1946, Kyrgyzstan, evacuated from Leningrad woman with two children — boys of six and ten years. Their father is in hospital, badly wounded. Time is poor, hungry. The family fights for life, selling homemade rugs on the market and picking up everything that can be useful in the economy on the ruins of abandoned houses. Once the brothers find in the dump a book with wonderful pictures. This is Alexander Pushkin's fairy tale "goldfish". The mother reads it to them before bedtime — and in the lives of boys be the dream and the sense of becoming owners of the coveted gold fish and the three wishes, one of which, of course, the return of the father, alive and well.
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Key Information & Fast Facts
- Director
- Aleksandr Galibin
- Screenplay & Story
- Lyudmila Gladunko
- Original Title
- Золотая рыбка
- Country of Origin
- Russia
- Spoken Languages
- Russian
- Runtime
- Unknown
Creative Leadership & Key Crew
Aleksandr Galibin
Lyudmila Gladunko
Boris Tokarev
Department Leadership Roster
Aleksandr Galibin
Director
Lyudmila Gladunko
Writer
Boris Tokarev
Producer
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What is Goldfish about?
1946, Kyrgyzstan, evacuated from Leningrad woman with two children — boys of six and ten years. Their father is in hospital, badly wounded. Time is poor, hungry. The family fights for life, selling homemade rugs on the market and picking up everything that can be useful in the economy on the ruins of abandoned houses. Once the brothers find in the dump a book with wonderful pictures. This is Alexander Pushkin's fairy tale "goldfish". The mother reads it to them before bedtime — and in the lives of boys be the dream and the sense of becoming owners of the coveted gold fish and the three wishes, one of which, of course, the return of the father, alive and well.
Who directed Goldfish?
Goldfish was directed by Aleksandr Galibin.
Who stars in Goldfish?
The principal cast of Goldfish includes Vladimir Verevochkin, Mariya Biork, Yaroslav Efremenko, Michail Stankevich, Ivan Egorov.
When was Goldfish released and how long is it?
Goldfish was released in 2016 with a total runtime of Unknown.