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Maria, the Wonderful Weaver is a film of genre Fantasy directed by Alexandre Rou released in USA on 10 october 1965 with Anatoly Kubatsky
Maria, the Wonderful Weaver (1959)
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Add to a movie listThe Magic Weaver (Russian: Марья-искусница, "Maria the Weaver") is a 1959 Soviet children's fantasy film directed by Aleksandr Rou and filmed at Gorky Film Studio. The film was imported to the West in the 1960s and ran in the U.S. in 1966.
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An old soldier helps a boy find his mother, Maria the Weaver, who has been kidnapped and carried away by an evil king of the undersea kingdom.Actors
Anatoly Kubatsky
(Whirlpool XIII)
Vera Altayskaya
(Тetushka-Nepogochuska)
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