Jack Frost

Jack Frost (, Morozko) is a 1964 Soviet romantic fantasy film made by Gorky Film Studio. It was based on a traditional Russian fairy tale Morozko. It was directed by Alexander Rou, and starred Eduard Izotov as Ivan, Natalya Sedykh as Nastenka, and Alexander Khvylya as Father Frost. The script was written by Nikolai Erdman. The soundtrack was composed by Nikolai Budashkin, who was inspired by the works of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. A version with an English dub was released in 1966 in the U.S. and was the one also spoofed on the cult TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000. At the end of 2010, Russia 1 remade the film into a musical, very different from the 1964 film, starring Nikolai Baskov. Plot A joined family lives on a farm in a village. Each parent had one daughter from a previous marriage. The man had a daughter named Nastenka, who is kind and hardworking. The woman had a daughter named Marfushka, who is rude and lazy. Nastenka is despised by her stepmother, who favors her own daughter, Marfushka. Nastenka's father is powerless to stop his wife. Nastenka's stepmother gives her many household chores. Then one day, during the season of Summer, when both Nastenka and Marfushka are young adults, in another village nearby, a young man named Ivan bids his beloved mother goodbye and leaves his home and heads out to see the world.