An Ordinary Miracle (1978 film)

An Ordinary Miracle
Directed by	Mark Zakharov
Written by	Mark Zakharov Yevgeni Shvarts (play)
Starring	Oleg Yankovsky Evgeni Leonov Aleksandr Abdulov Andrei Mironov Irina Kupchenko Yevgeniya Simonova Yury Solomin Vsevolod Larionov
Music by	Gennadi Gladkov
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	1978 (1978)
Running time	138 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

An Ordinary Miracle (Russian: Обыкновенное чудо, translit. Obyknovennoye chudo) is a Soviet 1978 romantic fantasy musical film directed by Mark Zakharov and based on a play by Yevgeni Shvarts. This is the second adaptation of the play; the first one was filmed in 1964 by Erast Garin.

Leonid Serebrennikov performed the main theme in the film ("Nelepo, smeshno, bezrassudno, bezumno, volshebno.."). Music by Gennadi Gladkov. Lyrics by Yuli Kim.

The protagonist of the film, the Wizard (Oleg Yankovsky), invents a fairy tale to amuse himself and his wife (Irina Kupchenko). The tale's characters come to life, come to his house and set out to live their lives.

Many years ago, the Wizard came up with a "reverse" fairy tale, turning a bear into a human (Aleksandr Abdulov), who would transform back into a bear as soon as a princess falls in love with him and kisses him. Now, the young man returns to the Wizard's house where he meets a beautiful girl (Yevgeniya Simonova), and they immediately fall in love with each other. To his dismay, she turns out to be a princess – the Wizard made it so that a king who was just passing by with his daughter and his suite felt a sudden urge to stop by the estate. When the Princess, clueless about the young man's origin, wants to kiss him, he flees in horror.

The Princess hurries after him, dressed as a boy. They meet in a tavern called "Emilia", but the Bear, unable to recognize the Princess, summons her to a duel. However, when the Princess cries out "Daddy" during the battle, the Bear realizes that she deceived him.