The Stone Flower (1946 film)

The Stone Flower (Russian: Каменный цветок, romanized: Kamennyy tsvetok) is a 1946 Soviet fantasy film directed by Aleksandr Ptushko.

It is an adaptation of Pavel Bazhov's story of the same name, in turn based on Ural region Russian folklore.

It also incorporates plot elements from the stories "The Mistress of the Copper Mountain" and "The Master Craftsman".

Eventually he picks a young boy Danilo, who appears to be very scatterbrain and careless in everything else, but shows extreme talent in shaping gemstones and creating patterns.

The landlord's wife is very satisfied with his work and orders a stone cup "that would look exactly like a flower".

Prokopych scolds him for trying too hard for no good reason, but secretly admires Danilo's determination.

Danilo works on his flower cup for several months, paying little attention to his fiancée Katinka.

An old craftsman warns him against walking this path, otherwise he might end up as one of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain's craftsmen.

He admits that he thinks about Katinka day and night, but the Mistress of the Copper Mountain claims that she is jealous and refuses to let him go.

While searching for some good stones in the forest, Katinka meets the Mistress of the Copper Mountain and demands that she let her beloved go.

She presents a casket filled with jewellery for Katinka, and rewards Danilo by letting him remember all that he learned at her domain.

"),[6] derived from this dialogue from the original fairy tale: "Well, Danilo the Craftsman, so naught came of your thornapple?"