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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation)

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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation)	comment	The Little Mermaid (Russian: Ð ÑƒÑ�Ð°Ð»Ð¾Ñ‡ÐºÐ° - Rusalochka) is a 29-minutes 1968 Soviet Russian animated film directed by Ivan Aksenchuk and produced at Soyuzmultfilm. Aleksandr Lokshin composed the soundtrack.It adapts the Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale of the same name, about a mermaid who, after reaching her 15th birthday, is allowed to swim to the surface. She saves the life of a human prince, falls in love with him and sacrifices her voice to a sea witch so she can turn human and be with him.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The story is framed by scenes featuring a bunch of tourists who visit Copenhagen, in Andersen's native Denmark. They stop by the famous statue of the Little Mermaid in the city's port, and a talking fish in the water below serves as storyteller.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_1ebbdddb	comment	Power at a Price: As in the original story, the Sea Witch will not do magic without a sacrifice — the Mermaid's beautiful voice. And even then, the spells come with painful side effects.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal: At the very least, the female fish with a headscarf who tells the story of the Little Mermaid.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_23a1e2a9	type	Adaptation Deviation
The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_23a1e2a9	comment	Adaptation Deviation: Instead of a knife to kill the prince with in order to save her own life, the Mermaid is given a magical seashell that can cause a storm to sink the ship by her sisters. The ending is an outright Downer, with no mention of the Mermaid becoming a Daughter of the Air and earning an immortal soul, although this may be explained by the film being probably based on the first version of Andersen's tale that didn't mention these things.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: According to the Sea Witch, the Mermaid's great-great-great-grandmother also fell in love with a human and also requested to be turned into a human.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_2854e0dd	comment	Pegasus: The Mermaid and the prince have a Flight of Romance on a winged horse in the Mermaid's Imagine Spot when she meets him in her human form.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: Every step is painful for the poor Mermaid once she has human legs.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_4441d947	comment	The Storyteller: Upon hearing the guide talk to the tourists in Copenhagen, a female talking fish laughs about humans "believing in love and not mermaids", and starts telling the story of the Little Mermaid to other fishes.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_4d1423b9	comment	Become a Real Boy: The Mermaid wants to become human so she can be with the prince.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The Mermaid lets herself die instead of killing the prince to save herself.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: The Sea Witch cackles quite a bit, although she clearly explains everything that will happen to the Mermaid and at what cost if she chooses to go through with it.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_6ceb0471	comment	Unrequited Love: The Mermaid loves the prince, but she has no way to express it to him, and he rapidly comes to love a princess he believes is the woman who saved him instead.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The Mermaid chooses death over killing the prince and reverting to mermaid form.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_78540917	comment	Like Brother and Sister: At least on the prince's side. Once he marries the princess, he treats the Mermaid like a sister (in his own words), much to her sorrow.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_8eb6825d	comment	Regal Ruff: The king of the kingdom the prince and the Mermaid visits has a big ruff collar, and so do many nobles in his court.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_92a61707	comment	The Speechless: The Mermaid sacrifices her voice to the Sea Witch so she can turn human, and becomes mute as a result.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_92b9e234	comment	Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: The whole school of fish in the port of Copenhagen wear clothes or at least hats, and the female storyteller fish wears a babushka headscarf.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_9a3c3d17	comment	The Omniscient: The Sea Witch already knows the reason the Mermaid visits her before she even starts explaining, that is, to become human because she's fallen in love with a human prince.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_9d1cc720	comment	Barbie Doll Anatomy: The mermaids (the protagonist included) are bare-breasted, but they don't have visible nipples.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_a3f1531b	comment	Standard Snippet: The beginning of Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor plays whenever the princess shows up.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_af8dad6b	type	Beautiful Singing Voice
The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_af8dad6b	comment	Beautiful Singing Voice: The Mermaid's voice (with singing provided by lyric soprano Viktoriya Ivanova). So beautiful that the Sea Witch demands it as price for the Mermaid to become human.
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The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_b552b24	type	Truer to the Text
The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_b552b24	comment	Truer to the Text: It is one of the most faithful adaptations of Andersen's tale.
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