The Snow Queen (Russian: Снежная королева, romanized: Snezhnaya Koroleva) is a 1957 Soviet animated musical fantasy film directed by Lev Atamanov. It was produced by Soyuzmultfilm and is based on the 1844 story of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen. The film is one of the first cinematic adaptations of the Scandinavian Danish fable ever since the story was written by Andersen in New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Second Collection (1844). The film was the ninth full-length animated film from studio Soyuzmultfilm.