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The Day the Earth Froze (1959) Aleksandr Ptushko
Based on Finnish mythology, this movie traces the exploits of Lemminkäinen as he woos Read More »
The Stone Flower / Kamennyy tsvetok (1946) Aleksandr Ptushko, Vladimir Druzhnikov, Yekaterina Derevshchikova, Tamara Makarova
Aging master gemcutter Prokopych is forced to take up a young apprentice against his will. Read More »
The Magic Voyage of Sinbad / Sadko (1953) Aleksandr Ptushko, Sergey Stolyarov, Alla Larionova, Ninel Myshkova
An oddly Russian Sinbad seeks to bring happiness to his people Read More »
Ruslan and Ludmila AKA Ruslan i Lyudmila (1972) Aleksandr Ptushko, Valeri Kozinets, Natalya Petrova, Vladimir Fyodorov
Based on Russian poet Alexander Pushkin’s fairy tale poem of the same name. Read More »
Skazka o poteryannom vremeni / A Tale of Lost Times (1964) Aleksandr Ptushko, Oleg Anofriev, Grisha Plotkin, Sergei Martinson, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Kind and instructive tale of four evil wizards who decided to regain youth. But for this it was necessary to find people aimlessly waste their time. Luck smiled on them! They met four disorderly students. Wizards bewitched students and turned them into old people and themselves become children.
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The Sword and the Dragon / Ilya Muromets (1956) Aleksandr Ptushko, Boris Andreyev, Shukur Burkhanov, Andrei Abrikosov, Fantasy
Ilya is a cripple without the use of his legs. When he aids some weary travellers, they surprise him by giving him a potion that restores his legs. He immediately becomes powerful and sets off to prove himself to his King. Doing so, he fights the evil Tugars, a wind demon that looks like a cross between a goblin and The Noid, a zeppelin-like ambassador, and the evil Tugars. Ilya gets framed for a crime he didn’t commit, then is freed, then finally dispatches the Tugars and their dragon.
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