The Stone Flower (1946) on Netflix
NR19461h 18mAdventureDramaFamily
Danilo, a gemcutter in the Ural Mountains, surpasses his old master Prokopych. Seeking a beauty stone cannot hold, he hears of the Stone Flower, kept by the Mistress of the Copper Mountain.
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Plot summary
Prokopych, an aging gemcutter in the Ural Mountains, is made by the landlord's bailiff to take on an apprentice. Most boys fail to grasp the soul of stone, but young Danilo shows a natural talent for shaping gems with patterns, and he soon passes his teacher. When the landlord returns from France, where he wagered with a marquess over whose casket is finer, he orders Prokopych to produce one that no one can take their eyes off. Danilo carves the malachite casket, and the landlord's wife then asks for a stone cup that looks exactly like a flower. Danilo works for months on it, paying little attention to his fiancée Katya, and an old craftsman warns him that those who see the legendary Stone Flower never return from the Mistress of the Copper Mountain's domain.
Cast
- Nikolai Orlovas Old master
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Stone Flower (1946)
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- The Stone Flower was the Soviet Union's first color film, shot on Agfacolor negative film seized in Germany, and it was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.
- The film popularized a Russian catchphrase, "How did that Stone Flower come out?", derived from a line of dialogue in the original fairy tale.
