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The Magical Portrait
2026-11-15 10:40:13 · Cedar Herald Index
The Magical Portrait () is a 1997 Russian-Chinese fantasy film directed by Gennady Vasilyev in his last film before his death.
Plot
Ivan lives in a village where he finds a portrait of the beautiful Chinese woman Qiao Xin, the portrait comes to life later and both fall in love with each other. And suddenly an evil sorcerer, just as enchanted by Qiao Xin, comes to the village.

Cast
Sergey Shnyryov as Ivan
Li Gao (Joey Wong) as Qiao Xin
Valentina Telichkina
Andrey Martynov
Vladimir Antonik as The Duke
Irina Bezrukova
Natalya Goncharova
Tszjangjuang Chang
Vladimir Episkoposyan
Sergey Galkin
References
External links
1997 films
1990s fantasy drama films
Films shot in Guangdong
Films shot in Russia
1990s Mandarin-language films
1990s Russian-language films
Russian fantasy drama films
Chinese multilingual films
Russian multilingual films
1997 multilingual films
Films based on fairy tales
