The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1966)

Based on a famous fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin this ravishingly beautiful fantasy is about love magic betrayal and abandoned family Driven from the Russian court by her sisters scheming the young Tsarina is thrown into the sea in a cask with her infant son Surviving the stormtossed voyage the mother and her now magicallyadult son land on a remote island where he falls in love with a Swan Princess in human form and longs for reunion with his estranged father Tsar Saltan Merchants come to the island with news of the tsar and the prince sends word back to him but the sisters continue their campaign of lies and trickery to keep them apart