A frozen town, a missing brightness, and two children willing to chase it back — that's the pitch behind The Snow Queen and the Princess, a 2022 animated fantasy adventure from Russia now on K-Time with a Farsi dub track.
What is The Snow Queen and the Princess about?
When the Icy Spirits sweep into Kai and Gerda's quiet town, the warmth of daily life vanishes overnight, and everyone around them slips into a chill they can't shake. Gerda refuses to accept the loss and sets out after Kai, following the spirits' trail through a stretch of unfamiliar, wintry country. The film leans on the bones of the classic Snow Queen story — a rescue journey structured around courage rather than combat — while building its own version of the frozen world the two friends must cross. Aleksey Tsitsilin and Andrey Korenkov direct the 75-minute feature, keeping the pace brisk and the stakes centered on friendship holding up against a spreading cold.
About the cast
The voice cast includes Milena Smit, Jose Coronado, Aixa Villagrán, Tristán Ulloa, Loreto Mauleon, Raúl Prieto, Marco Cáceres and Cecilia Freire, filling out the town's residents and the Icy Spirits who unsettle it. As an animated adventure aimed squarely at family viewing, the ensemble's job is tone as much as character work — sustaining warmth and comedy against a story that could otherwise read as bleak.
Context & significance
The Snow Queen and the Princess is a Russian animated production released in 2022, sitting within a run of fantasy adventures that have reworked Hans Christian Andersen's original tale for younger audiences. Genre-wise it sits across adventure, animation and fantasy, and at 75 minutes it's built as an easy, complete watch rather than a multi-part saga. Its reception has been middling, in line with the wider field of budget-conscious animated fairy-tale retellings aimed at family audiences rather than critics.
Watching The Snow Queen and the Princess on Ktime
The Snow Queen and the Princess streams on K-Time with a Persian dub, making it an easy pick for family movie nights in Farsi. Watching requires a free K-Time account login, though the page itself — including this write-up — is open to read without signing in. K-Time's catalogue is built around Persian-language access for the diaspora, so dubbed animated features like this one sit alongside subtitled options across the library.