Ilya Muromets
Language (Audio): RUSSIAN (mono), DOLBY DIGITAL 5.1: RUSSIAN (voice-over), ENGLISH (voice-over), FRENCH (voice-over), ARABIC (Voice-over) SUBTITLES: Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese. Fairy Tales, Mosfilm, 1958, 94 min. Format: 16:9, Widecreen. The film is based on Russian epic tales about the famous hero embodying the best character traits of the Russian people. Ilya Muromets, like Dobrynia Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich, is a favorite character of Russian folklore. Ilya Muromets is a heroic warrior who succeeded in protecting the Russian land from evil enemies, defeating their thousands-strong army. He saved Russia from various monsters, such as Nightingale the Robber and Gorynych the Serpent. This was the first Soviet wide-screen motion picture. Participating in the shooting were 106,000 soldiers-extras and 11,000 horses - the record numbers in the history of world cinema (as documented in Patrick Robertson's "The New Guinness Book of Movie Records", published in 1993). Awards: Honorary Diploma at the Edinburgh IFF, 1958 Director: Alexander Ptushko Script: Mikhail Kochnev Music by: Igor Morozov Cast: Boris Andreyev, Andrei Abrikosov, Natalya Medvedeva, Ninel Myshkova, Alexander Shvorin, Sergei Martinson, G. Dyomin, Sergei Stolyarov, Muratbek Ryskulov