A Snow Fairy Tale (Russian: Снежная сказка, romanized: Snezhnaya skazka) is a 1959 Soviet fantasy film directed by Aleksei Sakharov and Eldar Shengelaia.
The film tells about a boy-dreamer named Mitya, who is trying to convince his friends that his clock have an amazing ability to stop time and can revive a snow woman.
[4] The night before New Year's Eve, a boy named Mitya, who loves to daydream, jokingly tells his classmates at school that his toy clock—complete with painted hands—is magical and can stop all the clocks in the world, stop time, or even bring to life a snowman.
The Old Year, a mysterious and deceitful old man who fears and resists the coming of the New Year (which symbolizes his own end), learns of the clock's existence and decides to take it to stop time and forever preserve his own existence.
Despite futilely trying to persuade Mitya and Lyolya to give him the clock, the Old Year seizes a box containing three ordinary items—a coin, a piece of charcoal, and a scrap of paper with a wax seal.