The Snow Queen (1957)

The Snow Queen (Russian: Снежная королева, romanized: Snezhnaya Koroleva) is a 1957 Soviet animated musical fantasy film directed by Lev Atamanov. It is Soyuz mult film's ninth feature-length animated production and is adapted from Hans Christian Andersen's 1844 fairy tale "The Snow Queen". The film is one of the earliest cinematic adaptations of the Scandinavian Danish fairy tale since its publication in New Fairy Tales.
The Snow Queen The film was released in Russia on November 1, 1957. The film was re-released with an English soundtrack in 1959, 1993 and 1995. The Snow Queen The film was translated into several major languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Finnish and Swedish. In 1959, at the height of the Cold War, Universal Pictures acquired the film for U.S. theatrical distribution.