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The Tinderbox

Dec 01, 1987 | IMDB 0

17 min Watch Now

Animation, Fantasy

A modern version of a classical fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a veteran who got rich thanks to a magic flint and thus he could marry a beautiful princess.

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