{"id":10859,"date":"2014-03-31T09:55:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T16:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=10859"},"modified":"2014-03-31T09:58:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T16:58:14","slug":"cinderella-fantastic-1947-soviet-union-feature-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2014\/03\/31\/cinderella-fantastic-1947-soviet-union-feature-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinderella: Fantastic 1947 Soviet Union Feature Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Cinderella1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cinderella1\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Cinderella1.jpg\" width=100% \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Filmed in the Soviet Union just after World War II, this is a rare gem of fairytale movie making. It&#8217;s a fantastically colorful telling of the tale that stands as a welcome contrast to the Disney approach. The film features one of Russia&#8217;s greatest stage actresses, Faina Ranevskaya, as the stepmother. It was produced by the Soviet LenFilm studio and directed by Mikhail Shapiro and Nadezhda Kosheverova. I think it was originally filmed in black &#038; white but was recently colorized for a DVD release. The colorization works well within the context of a fairytale with grand stage scenery and theatrical costumes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yqL9DEZM_4M?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Cinderella2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cinderella2\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Cinderella2.jpg\" width=100% \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filmed in the Soviet Union just after World War II, this is a rare gem of fairytale movie making. It&#8217;s a fantastically colorful telling of the tale that stands as a welcome contrast to the Disney approach. The film features one of Russia&#8217;s greatest stage actresses, Faina Ranevskaya, as the stepmother. It was produced by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1483,44,4],"tags":[2406,833,1590],"class_list":["post-10859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1940s","category-fairy-tales","category-movies","tag-cinderella","tag-russia","tag-soviet-union"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10859"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10873,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859\/revisions\/10873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}