Sun Jul 21
8.00pm , 5.30pm
8.00pm , 5.30pm
Aleksandr Ptushko – The Day the Earth Froze (Sampo)
film
Aleksandr Ptushko – The Sword and the Dragon (Ilya Muromets)
This event took place Jul 10 - Jul 14, 2024
$14 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 NWFF Member
Aleksandr Ptushko
Soviet Union
1956
1h 27m
Series -
Aleksandr Ptushko from 1956-1972
About
(Aleksandr Ptushko, Soviet Union, 1956, 87 min, in Russian with English subtitles)
Legendary fantasy filmmaker Aleksandr Ptushko’s sweeping, visual effects-filled epic is one of his most enchanting achievements: a stunning CinemaScope ballad of heroic medieval knights, ruthless Tugar invaders, wind demons and three-headed fire-breathing dragons. The film stars Boris Andreyev as the bogatyr (warrior) Ilya, a mythic figure in the Kyivan Rus’ culture that pre-dated both modern Ukraine and Russia (much of the film’s action is set in Kyiv, and Ilya’s relics are held today in the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery). Based on a series of famous byliny (oral epics), the film follows Ilya as he wages a decades-long battle against the Tugars who threaten his homeland, kidnap his wife and raise his own son to fight against him.
Director Ptushko began his career in the 1930s and went on to become a combination of Walt Disney, Ray Harryhausen and Mario Bava for his dazzling, bejeweled fantasies including The Stone Flower, Sadko, Sampo and Ruslan & Ludmila. The first Cinemascope film produced in the Soviet Union, Ilya Muromets was released in a truncated, dubbed version in the U.S. at the height of the Cold War as The Sword and the Dragon, which downplayed the epic poetry and lyricism of the original. The film has been restored in 4K for its first-ever official U.S. release in its original form by Deaf Crocodile, in association with Seagull Films.
Synopsis and stills courtesy of Deaf Crocodile.
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