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** The ending is an outright DownerEnding, with no mention of the Mermaid becoming a Daughter of the Air and earning an immortal soul.
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** The ending is an outright DownerEnding, {{Downer|Ending}}, with no mention of the Mermaid becoming a Daughter of the Air and earning an immortal soul.
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* AdaptedOut: The Mermaid's grandmother and the Daughters of the Air do not appear in this adaptation.
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''The Little Mermaid'' (Russian: ''Русалочка'', romanized: ''Русалочка'' - ''Rusalochka'') is a 29-minutes 1968 Soviet Russian animated film directed by Ivan Aksenchuk and produced at Creator/{{Soyuzmultfilm}}.
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* WestminsterChimes: The town clock heard in Copenhagen at the beginning rings like Big Ben.
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* WestminsterChimes: The town clock heard in Copenhagen at the beginning rings like Big Ben.this way.
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* DownerEnding: The Mermaid lets herself die instead of killing the prince to save herself. While in the original tale it's a BittersweetEnding in that she becomes a Daughter of the Air and earns an immortal soul, those things aren't mentioned here.
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* DownerEnding: The Mermaid lets herself die instead of killing the prince to save herself. While in the original tale it's a BittersweetEnding in that she becomes a Daughter of the Air and earns an immortal soul, those things aren't are not mentioned here.
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* AdaptationDeviation: Instead of a knife to kill the prince with in order to save her own life, the Mermaid is given a magical seashell that can cause a storm to sink the ship by her sisters.
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* AdaptationDeviation: AdaptationDeviation:
** Instead of a knife to kill the prince with in order to save her own life, the Mermaid is given a magical seashell that can cause a storm to sink the ship by hersisters.sisters.
** The ending is an outright DownerEnding, with no mention of the Mermaid becoming a Daughter of the Air and earning an immortal soul.
** Instead of a knife to kill the prince with in order to save her own life, the Mermaid is given a magical seashell that can cause a storm to sink the ship by her
** The ending is an outright DownerEnding, with no mention of the Mermaid becoming a Daughter of the Air and earning an immortal soul.
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* DownerEnding: The Mermaid lets herself die instead of killing the prince to save herself. While in the original tale it's a BittersweetEnding in that she becomes a Daughter of the Air and earns an immortal soul, those things aren't mentioned here.
* DrivenToSuicide: The Mermaid chooses death over killing the prince and reverting to mermaid form.
* DrivenToSuicide: The Mermaid chooses death over killing the prince and reverting to mermaid form.
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* LastSecondChance: After the prince marries the princess, time's up for the Mermaid. Her sisters learn of what she did, and they buy an emergency solution to try saving her at a heavy price -- a magical seashell the Mermaid will have to use to cause a storm and kill the prince if she doesn't want to die.
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* LikeBrotherAndSister: At least on the prince's side. Once he marries the princess, he treats the Mermaid like a sister (in his own words), much to her sorrow.
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* ActOfTrueLove: The Mermaid is given one last chance to save herself by her sisters, by killing the prince and his newlywed by using the magical seashell to cause a storm and destroy the ship. She refuses, allowing him to live happily with his new wife and thus dissolving in foam when the Sun rises.
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* ActOfTrueLove: The Mermaid is given one last chance to save herself by her sisters, by that is, killing the prince and his newlywed by using the magical seashell to cause a storm and destroy the ship. She refuses, allowing him to live happily with his new wife and thus dissolving in sea foam when the Sun rises.
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* ActOfTrueLove: The Mermaid is given one last chance to save herself by her sisters, by killing the prince and his newlywed by using the shell to cause a storm and destroy the ship. She refuses, allowing him to live happily with his new wife and thus dissolving in foam when the Sun rises.
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* ActOfTrueLove: The Mermaid is given one last chance to save herself by her sisters, by killing the prince and his newlywed by using the shell magical seashell to cause a storm and destroy the ship. She refuses, allowing him to live happily with his new wife and thus dissolving in foam when the Sun rises.rises.
* AdaptationDeviation: Instead of a knife to kill the prince with in order to save her own life, the Mermaid is given a magical seashell that can cause a storm to sink the ship by her sisters.
* AdaptationDeviation: Instead of a knife to kill the prince with in order to save her own life, the Mermaid is given a magical seashell that can cause a storm to sink the ship by her sisters.
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* AltarDiplomacy: The prince is set to marry the princess of a neighbor kingdom to his own, very much implying this.
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* AltarDiplomacy: The prince is set to marry the princess of a neighbor kingdom to his own, very much implying this.diplomatic reasons.
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* AltarDiplomacy: The prince is set to marry the princess of a neighbor kingdom to his own, very much implying this.
* SilentWhisper: When the prince arrives at the court of the kingdom he's been arranged to marry the princess from, the whole court whispers as they see the Mermaid by his side.
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* StandardSnippet: The beginning of Music/JohannSebastianBach's StandardSnippet/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor plays when the woman the prince believes is the one who saved him makes her entrance.
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* StandardSnippet: The beginning of Music/JohannSebastianBach's StandardSnippet/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor plays when the woman princess the prince believes is the one who saved him makes her entrance.
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* TheSpeechless: The Mermaid had to sacrifice her voice to the Sea Witch to become human, and so she can't speak anymore.
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* {{Pegasus}}: The Mermaid and the prince have a FlightOfRomance in the Mermaid's ImagineSpot when she meets him in her human form.
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* {{Pegasus}}: The Mermaid and the prince have a FlightOfRomance on a winged horse in the Mermaid's ImagineSpot when she meets him in her human form.
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* ActOfTrueLove: The mermaid is given one last chance to save herself by her sisters, by killing the prince and his newlywed by using the shell to cause a storm and destroy the ship. She refuses, allowing him to live happily with his new wife and thus dissolving in foam when the Sun rises.
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* ActOfTrueLove: The mermaid Mermaid is given one last chance to save herself by her sisters, by killing the prince and his newlywed by using the shell to cause a storm and destroy the ship. She refuses, allowing him to live happily with his new wife and thus dissolving in foam when the Sun rises.
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* {{Pegasus}}: The Mermaid and the prince have a FlightOfRomance in the Mermaid's ImagineSpot when she meets him in her human form.
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* ActOfTrueLove: The mermaid is given one last chance to save herself by her sisters, by killing the prince and his newlywed by using the shell to cause a storm and destroy the ship. She refuses, allowing him to live happily with his new wife and thus dissolving in foam.
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* ActOfTrueLove: The mermaid is given one last chance to save herself by her sisters, by killing the prince and his newlywed by using the shell to cause a storm and destroy the ship. She refuses, allowing him to live happily with his new wife and thus dissolving in foam.foam when the Sun rises.
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* ActOfTrueLove: The mermaid is given one last chance to save herself by her sisters, by killing the prince and his newlywed by using the shell to cause a storm and destroy the ship. She refuses, allowing him to live happily with his new wife and thus dissolving in foam.
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* WestminsterChimes: The clock heard in Copenhagen at the beginning rings like Big Ben.
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* WestminsterChimes: The town clock heard in Copenhagen at the beginning rings like Big Ben.
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''The Little Mermaid'' (Russian: ''Русалочка'', romanized: ''Rusalochka'') is a 29-minuteq 29-minutes 1968 Soviet Russian animated film directed by Ivan Aksenchuk and produced at Creator/{{Soyuzmultfilm}}.
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* PowerAtAPrice: As in the original story, the Sea Witch will not do magic without a sacrifice -- the Mermaid's beautiful voice. And even then, the spells come with [[AgonyOfTheFeet painful side effects]].
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''The Little Mermaid'' (Russian: ''Русалочка'', romanized: ''Rusalochka'') is a 27-minute 1968 Soviet Russian animated film directed by Ivan Aksenchuk.
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''The Little Mermaid'' (Russian: ''Русалочка'', romanized: ''Rusalochka'') is a 27-minute 29-minuteq 1968 Soviet Russian animated film directed by Ivan Aksenchuk.Aksenchuk and produced at Creator/{{Soyuzmultfilm}}.
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* EvilLaugh: The Sea Witch cackles quite a bit, although she explains everything that will happen to the Mermaid and at what cost.
* FramingDevice: The story is told to a bunch of tourists who visit Copenhagen, in Andersen's native UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}. They stop by the famous statue of the Little Mermaid in the city's port, and the films ends at that same place.
* FramingDevice: The story is told to a bunch of tourists who visit Copenhagen, in Andersen's native UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}. They stop by the famous statue of the Little Mermaid in the city's port, and the films ends at that same place.
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* EvilLaugh: The Sea Witch cackles quite a bit, although she clearly explains everything that will happen to the Mermaid and at what cost.
cost if she chooses to go through it.
* FramingDevice: The story is told to a bunch of tourists who visit Copenhagen, in Andersen's native UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}. They stop by the famous statue of the Little Mermaid in the city'sport, port and the guide starts the tale, and the films ends at that same place.
* FramingDevice: The story is told to a bunch of tourists who visit Copenhagen, in Andersen's native UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}. They stop by the famous statue of the Little Mermaid in the city's
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: Every step is painful for the poor Mermaid once she gets human legs.
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: Every step is painful for the poor Mermaid once she gets human legs.
* BecomeARealBoy: The Mermaid wants to become human so she can be with the prince.
* BecomeARealBoy: The Mermaid wants to become human so she can be with the prince.
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* EvilLaugh: The Sea Witch cackles quite a bit, although she explains everything that will happen to the Mermaid and at what cost.
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* BigRedDevil: The Sea Witch has a devil-ish red skin and fangs, and appears in bursts of flames.
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* StandardSnippet: The beginning of Music/JohannSebastianBach's StandardSnippet/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor plays when the woman the prince believes is the one who saved him makes her entrance.
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''The Little Mermaid'' (Russian: ''Русалочка'', romanized: ''Rusalochka'') is a 27-minute 1968 Soviet Russian animated film directed by Ivan Aksenchuk. It adapts the Creator/HansChristianAndersen FairyTale [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid of the same name]].
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''The Little Mermaid'' (Russian: ''Русалочка'', romanized: ''Rusalochka'') is a 27-minute 1968 Soviet Russian animated film directed by Ivan Aksenchuk.
It adapts the Creator/HansChristianAndersen FairyTale [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid of the samename]].
name]], about a mermaid who saves the life of a human prince, falls in love with him and sacrifices her voice to a sea witch so she can turn human and be with him.
It adapts the Creator/HansChristianAndersen FairyTale [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid of the same
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''The Little Mermaid'' (Russian: ''Русалочка'', romanized: ''Rusalochka'') is a 27-minute 1968 Soviet Russian animated film directed by Ivan Aksenchuk. It adapts the Creator/HansChristianAndersen FairyTale [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid of the same name]].
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''The Little Mermaid'' (Russian: ''Русалочка'', romanized: ''Rusalochka'') is a 27-minute 1968 Soviet Russian animated film directed by Ivan Aksenchuk. It adapts the Creator/HansChristianAndersen FairyTale [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid of the same name]].name]].
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!!This film provides examples of the following tropes:
* FramingDevice: The story is told to a bunch of tourists who visit Copenhagen, in Andersen's native UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}. They stop by the famous statue of the Little Mermaid in the city's port, and the films ends at that same place.
* TheStoryteller: The guide who tells the story of the Little Mermaid to the tourists in Copenhagen.
* TruerToTheText: It is one of the most faithful adaptations of Andersen's tale.
* WestminsterChimes: The clock heard in Copenhagen at the beginning rings like Big Ben.
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!!This film provides examples of the following tropes:
* FramingDevice: The story is told to a bunch of tourists who visit Copenhagen, in Andersen's native UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}. They stop by the famous statue of the Little Mermaid in the city's port, and the films ends at that same place.
* TheStoryteller: The guide who tells the story of the Little Mermaid to the tourists in Copenhagen.
* TruerToTheText: It is one of the most faithful adaptations of Andersen's tale.
* WestminsterChimes: The clock heard in Copenhagen at the beginning rings like Big Ben.
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''The Little Mermaid'' (Russian: ''Русалочка'', romanized: ''Rusalochka'') is a 27-minute 1968 Soviet Russian animated film directed by Ivan Aksenchuk. It adapts Creator/HansChristianAndersen's FairyTale [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid of the same name]].
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''The Little Mermaid'' (Russian: ''Русалочка'', romanized: ''Rusalochka'') is a 27-minute 1968 Soviet Russian animated film directed by Ivan Aksenchuk. It adapts Creator/HansChristianAndersen's the Creator/HansChristianAndersen FairyTale [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid of the same name]].
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''The Little Mermaid'' (Russian: ''Русалочка'', romanized: ''Rusalochka'') is a 27-minute 1968 Soviet Russian animated film directed by Ivan Aksenchuk. It adapts Creator/HansChristianAndersen's FairyTale [[Literature/TheLittle Mermaid of the same name]].
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''The Little Mermaid'' (Russian: ''Русалочка'', romanized: ''Rusalochka'') is a 27-minute 1968 Soviet Russian animated film directed by Ivan Aksenchuk. It adapts Creator/HansChristianAndersen's FairyTale [[Literature/TheLittle Mermaid [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid of the same name]].
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''The Little Mermaid'' (Russian: ''Русалочка'', romanized: ''Rusalochka'') is a 27-minute 1968 Soviet Russian animated film directed by Ivan Aksenchuk. It adapts Creator/HansChristianAndersen's FairyTale [[Literature/TheLittle Mermaid of the same name]].
''The Little Mermaid'' (Russian: ''Русалочка'', romanized: ''Rusalochka'') is a 27-minute 1968 Soviet Russian animated film directed by Ivan Aksenchuk. It adapts Creator/HansChristianAndersen's FairyTale [[Literature/TheLittle Mermaid of the same name]].
