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* {{Blackmail}}: The Stepmother forces Zolushka to help stepsister Anna cram her foot into the glass slipper by threatening to use her social connections to have Zolushka's father imprisoned or hanged.
* ChekhovsGun: Zolushka is an expert at all types of handiwork. She sews magnificent ballgowns for the Stepmother, Anna and Marianna in just one night. Near the climax, her skill with her hands is used against her when the Stepmother forces her to squeeze Anna's foot into the glass slipper.
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* GlassSlipper: Zolushka loses hers.hers, of course.
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* {{Ladyella}}: Averted in the original Russian title.title, ''Zolushka'', which is the traditional Russian name for Cinderella.
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* ParentalNeglect: The cowardly father fails to protect Zolushka. He finally comes through for her at the climax, though, when he reveals to the royal court that she has the other glass slipper.
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* NiceHat: The stepmother and the stepsisters all wear ornate hats with piles of fruit, Creator/CarmenMiranda style.
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* TuttiFruttiHat: The stepmother and the stepsisters all wear ornate hats with piles of fruit, Creator/CarmenMiranda style.
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* TheEnd: Ends with the goofy king finally carrying through on his constant threats to abdicate. He gives the wig and crown to his page boy, then says that the Prince and Zolushka will have a baby girl that is her spitting image, and that said girl will eventually marry the page boy. He talks for a little bit about how kind and generous the page boy/new king is, and about the page boy's tender feelings. Then he says "I love these wonderful feelings, which will never come to an--", and then he looks straight at the camera and says "--end." This is followed immediately by the closing "The End" title card (Russian конец, "konets").
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* TheEnd: Ends with the goofy king finally carrying through on his constant threats to abdicate. He gives the wig and crown to his page boy, then says that the Prince and Zolushka will have a baby girl that is her spitting image, and that said girl will eventually marry the page boy. He talks for a little bit about how kind and generous the page boy/new king is, and about the page boy's tender feelings. Then he says "I love these wonderful feelings, which will never come to an--", and then he looks straight at the camera and says "--end." This is followed immediately by the closing "The End" title card (Russian конец, "konets").
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* FairyGodmother: How did you guess? Oddly, Zolushka already knows the fairy godmother and has met her before; on a prior visit the fairy godmother came out from behind the fireplace. This of course makes one wonder why the F.G. hasn't helped Zolushka until now.
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* FairyGodmother: How did you guess? Oddly, Zolushka already knows the fairy godmother and has met her before; on a prior visit the fairy godmother came out from behind the fireplace. This of course makes one wonder why the F.G. hasn't helped Zolushka until now.now – she implies that it's because of the stepmother's powerful "connections," which she claims are the only reason why she hasn't turned her into a frog.
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* KarmaHoudini: Most versions have at least the stepsisters suffer some punishment, but in this film neither the stepsisters nor the stepmother suffer anything at all other than embarrassment when Anna is exposed as a faker.
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* KarmaHoudini: Most versions have at least the stepsisters suffer some punishment, but in this film neither the stepsisters nor the stepmother suffer anything at all other than embarrassment when Anna is exposed as a faker. They just resolve to leave the country and storm away.
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* RapidAging: Inverted. The Godmother arrives as an older woman, but changes into a younger one upon seeing Cinderella. As she explains, true fairies grow older or younger based on the mood as easily as humans pale and blush.
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* RapidAging: Inverted. The Godmother arrives as an older woman, but changes into a younger one upon seeing Cinderella. As she explains, true fairies grow older or younger based on the mood as easily as humans pale and blush.blush, and the joy of seeing her goddaughter makes her younger.
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* SiblingTriangle: The older stepsister, Anna, tries hard to land the prince but fails.
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* SiblingTriangle: The older stepsister, Anna, tries hard to land the prince but fails. The younger one, Marianna, also sets her sights on him, but their mother prefers to pitch Anna to the prince and hopes that once they're married, the widowed King will chose Marianna as his second wife.
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* TheCakeIsALie: As in the original fairy tale and many adaptations, the stepmother says that sure Zolushka can go to the ball, but only if she accomplishes an enormous amount of chores first, like storing a whole summer's worth of beans.
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* TheCakeIsALie: As in the original fairy tale and many adaptations, the stepmother says that sure Zolushka can go to the ball, but only if she accomplishes an enormous amount of chores first, like storing sorting a whole summer's worth of beans.
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* CinderellaCircumstances: Yup, there's a wicked stepmother to turn Zolushka into a slave.
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* CatchPhrase: The apprentice is constantly repeating "I'm not a wizard, I am still learning".
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* DiabolusExMachina: Zolushka checks the clock and sees that it's 10:45, so she has plenty of time to relax with the prince. Then the goofball king decides to set all the clocks forward an hour, because he wants more time for the party (which makes no sense, since that would make the party end sooner). Zolushka has to beat a hasty retreat.
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* DiabolusExMachina: Zolushka checks the clock and sees that it's 10:45, so she has plenty of time to relax with the prince. Then the goofball Apprentice tells her the king decides had ordered to set all the clocks forward an hour, hour back, because he wants more time for the party (which makes no sense, since that would make the party end sooner).guests to stay longer. Zolushka has to beat a hasty retreat.
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* IHaveThisFriend: The prince has an AwkwardDeclarationOfLove in which he tells Zolushka that he has this friend, who is also a prince, and who just happened to meet his dream girl at the same ball.
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* IHaveThisFriend: The prince has an AwkwardDeclarationOfLove AnguishedDeclarationOfLove in which he tells Zolushka that he has this friend, who is also a prince, and who just happened to meet his dream girl at the same ball.
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It is on the whole a highly faithful adaptation of the "Literature/Cinderella" fairy tale as it originally appeared in the works of Charles Perrault. Cinderella, or rather Zolushka in this version, is suffering under an evil stepmother and two bitchy stepsisters who make her dress in rags and do scullery work. Her father, still alive in this version, is a spineless weakling who allows his wife to dominate him and persecute his daughter.
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It is on the whole a highly faithful adaptation of the "Literature/Cinderella" "Literature/{{Cinderella}}" fairy tale as it originally appeared in the works of Charles Perrault. Cinderella, or rather Zolushka in this version, is suffering under an evil stepmother and two bitchy stepsisters who make her dress in rags and do scullery work. Her father, still alive in this version, is a spineless weakling who allows his wife to dominate him and persecute his daughter.
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* SiblingTriangleSiblingTriangle: The older stepsister, Anna, tries hard to land the prince but fails.
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''Cinderella'' (Зо́лушка, "Zolushka") is a 1947 film directed by Nadezhda Kosheverova and Mikhail Shapiro, produced in UsefulNotes/JosefStalin's Soviet Union.
It is on the whole a highly faithful adaptation of the "Literature/Cinderella" fairy tale as it originally appeared in the works of Charles Perrault. Cinderella, or rather Zolushka in this version, is suffering under an evil stepmother and two bitchy stepsisters who make her dress in rags and do scullery work. Her father, still alive in this version, is a spineless weakling who allows his wife to dominate him and persecute his daughter.
This state of affairs is upended when the king proclaims a dress ball. Cinderella's father, the royal forester, gets to go, as do the stepmother and her daughters Anna and Marianna. Cinderella of course does not get to go, her stepmother cruelly loading her up with chores to make sure she doesn't have time even to look at the ball from afar. Cue the fairy godmother, who works some magic with mice and pumpkins...
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!!Tropes:
* TheApprentice: In this version the Fairy Godmother is followed around by an apprentice, a boy who is training to become a wizard. The boy actually does a lot of the magic, like when he whisks the prince back to the castle at the end.
* TheCakeIsALie: As in the original fairy tale and many adaptations, the stepmother says that sure Zolushka can go to the ball, but only if she accomplishes an enormous amount of chores first, like storing a whole summer's worth of beans.
* CinderellaCircumstances: Yup, there's a wicked stepmother to turn Zolushka into a slave.
* DanceOfRomance: Where Zolushka first falls in love with the prince.
* DancesAndBalls: Lots of CostumePorn!
* DiabolusExMachina: Zolushka checks the clock and sees that it's 10:45, so she has plenty of time to relax with the prince. Then the goofball king decides to set all the clocks forward an hour, because he wants more time for the party (which makes no sense, since that would make the party end sooner). Zolushka has to beat a hasty retreat.
* TheEnd: Ends with the goofy king finally carrying through on his constant threats to abdicate. He gives the wig and crown to his page boy, then says that the Prince and Zolushka will have a baby girl that is her spitting image, and that said girl will eventually marry the page boy. He talks for a little bit about how kind and generous the page boy/new king is, and about the page boy's tender feelings. Then he says "I love these wonderful feelings, which will never come to an--", and then he looks straight at the camera and says "--end." This is followed immediately by the closing "The End" title card (Russian конец, "konets").
* FairyGodmother: How did you guess? Oddly, Zolushka already knows the fairy godmother and has met her before; on a prior visit the fairy godmother came out from behind the fireplace. This of course makes one wonder why the F.G. hasn't helped Zolushka until now.
* TheFilmOfTheBook: While the father is still alive in the earliest versions of this tale (both Perrault and the Brothers Grimm), virtually all latter-day adaptations kill the father off to explain why he doesn't protect his daughter. This is a rare example of an adaptation that has the father still alive; he's just a wimp who lets his wife push him and his daughter around.
* TheGirlWhoFitsThisSlipper: Subverted. The prince's palace guard goes out, like in all versions of this story, looking for the match. But with Zolushka's help, Anna the older sister manages to cram her foot into it. Eventually Anna is exposed as an impostor when she stumbles at court and the shoe pops off. Zolushka never does put the shoe on. She eventually proves who she is by producing the matching shoe.
* GlassSlipper: Zolushka loses hers.
* GorgeousGarmentGeneration: The Fairy Godmother zaps up an impressive gown.
* HenpeckedHusband: In this version the father is still alive, but is a weakling who lets his wife abuse Zolushka. A couple of times when he is insufficiently obedient, the stepmother threatens to kick him out of the house. He tells the king that his wife had a sister, and when the sister was eaten by a bear, the bear died of poisoning.
* IHaveThisFriend: The prince has an AwkwardDeclarationOfLove in which he tells Zolushka that he has this friend, who is also a prince, and who just happened to meet his dream girl at the same ball.
* KarmaHoudini: Most versions have at least the stepsisters suffer some punishment, but in this film neither the stepsisters nor the stepmother suffer anything at all other than embarrassment when Anna is exposed as a faker.
* {{Ladyella}}: Averted in the original Russian title.
* LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone: The king announces the wedding, but as the Prince and Zolushka hold hands and gaze at each other, the Prince notes that Zolushka hasn't said she loves him. The king then ushers everyone out of the room, saying that he hates it when gawkers intrude on romantic resolutions.
* TheMusical: A few songs, both from Zolushka and from the prince.
* NiceHat
* ParentalNeglect
* PrincessForADay
* RobeAndWizardHat: The oldest wizard in the king's court is dressed exactly this way, a blue robe and pointy hat with lots of yellow stars and moons.
* RunningGag: Whenever the king faces some minor annoyance, he flings down his crown and his wig and throws a fit, yelling that he's going to abdicate and go off to live in a monastery. This happens several times.
* SiblingTriangle
* StopMotion: Russians [[Animation/TheCameramansRevenge invented stop-motion animation]]. Used in this film for the sequence in which the Fairy Godmother makes a coach, coachman, and horses out of, respectively, a pumpkin, a rat, and four mice.
* TextileWorkIsFeminine
* UnkemptBeauty: Like with many ''Cinderella'' adaptations, Zolushka still looks lovely as a ragged servant girl, but with a prominent smudge of dirt on her cheek.
* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve
* WickedStepmother
* TheWonderland: The old wizard has the ability to send people into a magic fairy land for the oddly precise time of nine minutes and ten seconds. These fairylands are tailored to the individual and are basically what each individual's favorite place would be. The prince and Zolushka get sent to a grassy field together.
It is on the whole a highly faithful adaptation of the "Literature/Cinderella" fairy tale as it originally appeared in the works of Charles Perrault. Cinderella, or rather Zolushka in this version, is suffering under an evil stepmother and two bitchy stepsisters who make her dress in rags and do scullery work. Her father, still alive in this version, is a spineless weakling who allows his wife to dominate him and persecute his daughter.
This state of affairs is upended when the king proclaims a dress ball. Cinderella's father, the royal forester, gets to go, as do the stepmother and her daughters Anna and Marianna. Cinderella of course does not get to go, her stepmother cruelly loading her up with chores to make sure she doesn't have time even to look at the ball from afar. Cue the fairy godmother, who works some magic with mice and pumpkins...
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!!Tropes:
* TheApprentice: In this version the Fairy Godmother is followed around by an apprentice, a boy who is training to become a wizard. The boy actually does a lot of the magic, like when he whisks the prince back to the castle at the end.
* TheCakeIsALie: As in the original fairy tale and many adaptations, the stepmother says that sure Zolushka can go to the ball, but only if she accomplishes an enormous amount of chores first, like storing a whole summer's worth of beans.
* CinderellaCircumstances: Yup, there's a wicked stepmother to turn Zolushka into a slave.
* DanceOfRomance: Where Zolushka first falls in love with the prince.
* DancesAndBalls: Lots of CostumePorn!
* DiabolusExMachina: Zolushka checks the clock and sees that it's 10:45, so she has plenty of time to relax with the prince. Then the goofball king decides to set all the clocks forward an hour, because he wants more time for the party (which makes no sense, since that would make the party end sooner). Zolushka has to beat a hasty retreat.
* TheEnd: Ends with the goofy king finally carrying through on his constant threats to abdicate. He gives the wig and crown to his page boy, then says that the Prince and Zolushka will have a baby girl that is her spitting image, and that said girl will eventually marry the page boy. He talks for a little bit about how kind and generous the page boy/new king is, and about the page boy's tender feelings. Then he says "I love these wonderful feelings, which will never come to an--", and then he looks straight at the camera and says "--end." This is followed immediately by the closing "The End" title card (Russian конец, "konets").
* FairyGodmother: How did you guess? Oddly, Zolushka already knows the fairy godmother and has met her before; on a prior visit the fairy godmother came out from behind the fireplace. This of course makes one wonder why the F.G. hasn't helped Zolushka until now.
* TheFilmOfTheBook: While the father is still alive in the earliest versions of this tale (both Perrault and the Brothers Grimm), virtually all latter-day adaptations kill the father off to explain why he doesn't protect his daughter. This is a rare example of an adaptation that has the father still alive; he's just a wimp who lets his wife push him and his daughter around.
* TheGirlWhoFitsThisSlipper: Subverted. The prince's palace guard goes out, like in all versions of this story, looking for the match. But with Zolushka's help, Anna the older sister manages to cram her foot into it. Eventually Anna is exposed as an impostor when she stumbles at court and the shoe pops off. Zolushka never does put the shoe on. She eventually proves who she is by producing the matching shoe.
* GlassSlipper: Zolushka loses hers.
* GorgeousGarmentGeneration: The Fairy Godmother zaps up an impressive gown.
* HenpeckedHusband: In this version the father is still alive, but is a weakling who lets his wife abuse Zolushka. A couple of times when he is insufficiently obedient, the stepmother threatens to kick him out of the house. He tells the king that his wife had a sister, and when the sister was eaten by a bear, the bear died of poisoning.
* IHaveThisFriend: The prince has an AwkwardDeclarationOfLove in which he tells Zolushka that he has this friend, who is also a prince, and who just happened to meet his dream girl at the same ball.
* KarmaHoudini: Most versions have at least the stepsisters suffer some punishment, but in this film neither the stepsisters nor the stepmother suffer anything at all other than embarrassment when Anna is exposed as a faker.
* {{Ladyella}}: Averted in the original Russian title.
* LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone: The king announces the wedding, but as the Prince and Zolushka hold hands and gaze at each other, the Prince notes that Zolushka hasn't said she loves him. The king then ushers everyone out of the room, saying that he hates it when gawkers intrude on romantic resolutions.
* TheMusical: A few songs, both from Zolushka and from the prince.
* NiceHat
* ParentalNeglect
* PrincessForADay
* RobeAndWizardHat: The oldest wizard in the king's court is dressed exactly this way, a blue robe and pointy hat with lots of yellow stars and moons.
* RunningGag: Whenever the king faces some minor annoyance, he flings down his crown and his wig and throws a fit, yelling that he's going to abdicate and go off to live in a monastery. This happens several times.
* SiblingTriangle
* StopMotion: Russians [[Animation/TheCameramansRevenge invented stop-motion animation]]. Used in this film for the sequence in which the Fairy Godmother makes a coach, coachman, and horses out of, respectively, a pumpkin, a rat, and four mice.
* TextileWorkIsFeminine
* UnkemptBeauty: Like with many ''Cinderella'' adaptations, Zolushka still looks lovely as a ragged servant girl, but with a prominent smudge of dirt on her cheek.
* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve
* WickedStepmother
* TheWonderland: The old wizard has the ability to send people into a magic fairy land for the oddly precise time of nine minutes and ten seconds. These fairylands are tailored to the individual and are basically what each individual's favorite place would be. The prince and Zolushka get sent to a grassy field together.
