The Snow Queen
- IMDb link: 0091449
- IMDb rating: 6.4 (570 votes) Search
- Genres: Fantasy, Family
- Director: Paivi Hartzell
- Cast: Satu Silvo, Outi Vainionkulma, Sebastian Kaatrasalo, Tuula Nyman and others
- Release date: 19 Dec 1986
- Release year: 1986
- Runtime: 90 minutes
- Country: Finland
- Keywords: child in jeopardy, one word title, eastern europe, finnish fairy tale, finnish fantasy, eastern scandinavia, european psychotronic film, fairy tale fantasy, live action fairy tale, european fantasy
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In this adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's longest story, the beautiful Snow Queen has captured two children and now keeps them apart. She has inserted a sliver of her own special ice into the eye of the boy, so that his heart will turn to ice and will be a proper match for hers. The boy's sister, meanwhile, has won free and attempts to find her brother. When she does, the warmth of her love for him melts his frozen heart and defeats the Snow Queen decisively.
Based on the famous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, this adaptation is fairly faithful to the original. Portraying the sinister tones of old fairy tales in a dream-like or theatrical style, this surreal film focuses mainly on the young girl Kerttu's journey to rescue her brother Kai from the evil Snow Queen. Kerttu travels through beautiful and hostile lands, meeting various strange and threatening characters on the way - befriended and helped by some, waylaid and trapped by others. In the classic style of such tales her journey is episodic, punctuated with scenes of events unfolding at the Snow Queen's palace.
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