Kingdom in the Clouds | |
Director: | Elisabeta Bostan |
Story: | Petre Ispirescu |
Starring: | Carmen Stănescu Nicolae Secăreanu |
Music: | Temistocle Popa |
Cinematography: | Julius Druckmann |
Editing: | Dan Naum |
Distributor: | RomaniaFilm Xerox Films (U.S., 1971) Paramount Pictures (U.S., 1974) |
Runtime: | 83 minutes |
Country: | Romania Soviet Union |
Language: | Romanian |
Budget: | 6,144,383 lei |
Kingdom in the Clouds (Romanian: Tinerețe fără bătrînețe – literal title: Youth Without Old Age) is a Romanian fantasy film from 1969. It was directed and written by Elisabeta Bostan from a story by Petre Ispirescu (Tinerețe fără bătrânețe și viață fără de moarte).
A young man's quest for a kingdom promising eternal youth and immortality. To reach his goal he must fulfill the three wishes of the Emperor's daughter, retrieve three golden objects, answer three riddles set by the Lord of Time, overcome an evil witch, and escape the Kingdom of Lies ruled by an evil Emperor and the young man's nemesis, the Prince of Lies. In return for good deeds along the way, he is given a magical horn and feather to aid him in his quest and is served by a flying horse, all this before he can finally enter the Kingdom of Youth without Old Age and Life without Death and marry the Emperor's daughter.