617 - THE SWORD AND THE DRAGON
(USA title; November 1960; 1956; USSR; NR; 81m)

a.k.a. ILYA MOUROMETZ (original/USSR)
a.k.a. ILYA MOUROMETS (original/variation)
a.k.a. ILYA MUROMETS (original/variation)
a.k.a. ILYA MOUROMEZ (original/variation)
a.k.a. THE HERO AND THE BEAST

Ad: "Eye-Filling Spectacle! Man Against Monsters!"

Ad: "A cast of 106,000! 11,000 horses!"

Plot: A Russian hero leads the fight against invading Mongol Tugars and their three-headed dragon.

Prod/USA: Joseph Harris
Prod/USA: Sig Shore (Superfly)
Prod/Dir: Aleksandr Ptushko
(dir/*422-The Day The Earth Froze;
505-The Magic Voyage of Sinbad)
Scr: Michala Kochnev
Cin: Fyodor Provorov (505; The Stone Flower)
Cin: Yuli Kun (Life in Bloom)
Ed: M. Kuzmina (The First Date)
Ed/USA: Verna Fields (won Oscar/Jaws)
SFX Dir: Aleksei Renkov (422)
Cos: Olga Kruchinina (505; Scarlet Sails)
PDes: Yevgeni Kumankov
(School of Courage; adir/505)
Music Conductor: S. Sakharov (422)
Score: Igor Morozov (422; Scarlet Sails)

Ilya Muromets* / Boris Andreyev (The Last Hill)
Prince / Andrei Abrikosov (Alexander Nevsky; Ivan the Terrible)
Princess / Natalya Medvedeva (Diary of a School Director)
Vilya / Yelena Myshkova (505; The Magic Weaver)
Kalin / Shukur Burkhanov (TV's Rali)
voice of Kalin / Paul Frees (319-War of the Colossal Beast;
804-The Deadly Mantis; dir/scr/415-The Beatniks)
Alexai / Sergei Stolyarov (505; Heroes of the Sea)
Sokolnishec / Aleksandr Shvorin (Letyat Zhuravli; Sky Calls)
Mika / Sovol Martinson a.k.a. Sergei Martinson (505; The Idiot)
Durbar Muromets / Georgi Dyomin
Tugar dancer / Au-Son-Hi
English narrator / Mike Wallace (TV's 60 Minutes)
with Iya Arepina (A Big Family)
Mikhail Pugovkin (School of Courage)
Muratek Ryskulov (Andrei Rublyov)
Vladimir Solovyov (No Ordinary Summer)
V. Tyagushchyov (Scarlet Sails)
Sh. Tyumenbayev
S. Dzhamanov
N. Gladkov (Flames on the Volga)

Trivia: The character ILYA MUROMETS reportedly is an actual Russian hero of the 11th Century. One source says that this movie was originally shot in 3-D.

Last Updated: 6/26/1999