Dumbrava minunata

"A little girl and her dog in a enchanted journey"

Sep 29 1980 N/A 1h 15m
Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Lizuca is only six years old, not much older than her pet dachshund Patrocle, when her mother dies and she is left to live with her grandparents on their farm. Before long, Lizuca's father comes to take her away to live with him and his new bride, a vile woman who considers children the bane of all existence. Lizuca and the dachshund escape the wicked stepmother and spend the night in a hollow tree, a tree that changes into an enchanted land where Lizuca (like Alice through the Looking Glass) discovers a world of characters in the form of bees, frogs, the four seasons, Snow White, her dwarves, and other fairy tale creatures. This magic place is threatened by the evil stepmother's plan to sell the grove that protects the secret land to developers -- a decision that puts the woman on trial before this perfidy can be realized.

Plot

Adapted from Mihail Sadoveanu's 1926 novel. Lizuca is a 6 year old girl whose mother died and whose father is married to a nasty woman. She has to leave her grandparents, who she lived with for a while, because her stepmother needs her. Because Lizuca has inherited a forest from her mother. She is neglected and mistreated by her new stepmother and her father is never there. But together with her dog, she knows how to escape.

Written by

Draga Olteanu Matei, Mihail Sadoveanu

Directed by

Gheorghe Naghi

Cast

Diana Musca, Ernest Maftei, Elena Dragoi

Crew

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Production Countries

Romania

Production Companies

Centrul de Produc?ie Cinematografica Bucure?ti

Languages

Româna

Awards

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Trailers
Dumbrava minunata- trailer
Scores
# of Votes
337
Average Rating
7.6 out of 10
Metascore
NA
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