Summary
Paralyzed since birth, Ilya can only watch helplessly as his village is plundered by barbarians. But when a mysterious traveler arrives with a magic elixir that restores him to full health, Ilya begins an adventure to protect the village and the royal family from harm.
Good for
- Family movie night
- Friends night
- Kids
Skip it if
- Graphic violence bothers you
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 64GoodWatch 60
Letterboxd · 3 K ratings3.4/5
IMDb5.8
Running time
1 h 31 min
Shorter than most adventure movies, −12 min on the typical 103
typical 10391Half of all adventure movies run 93–120 min.
Reach
Streams in 109 countries
+99Released
1956
September 9, 1956
70 years ago
Genres
AdventureFantasyLanguage
Russian
Original language
Made in
Russia
Rated
No age rating yet.
Yes: its content advisories are violence, and the viewing guide lists it for kids.
What's in it
- ViolenceStrong
- Gore, disturbing imagesMild
- Frightening scenesMild
- Sex, nudityLittle or none
- Dark themesModerate
In white: what the content advisories name. Levels from the title analysis.
Viewing guide
AdultsFamily Movie NightFriends NightIntergenerationalKidsPublic Viewing SafeSolo WatchTeensPure EscapismThought-Provoking
and 20 more27 people
- Boris AndreyevIlya Muromets
- Andrei AbrikosovPrince Vladimir
- Natalya MedvedevaPrincess Apraksia
- Ninel MyshkovaVasilisa
- Aleksandr ShvorinSokolnichek
- Sergei MartinsonMishatychka
- Georgi DyominDobrynya Nikitich
- Sergey StolyarovAlyosha Popovich
Mikhail PugovkinRazumey
Vladimir SolovyovKasyan
Iya ArepinaAlyonushka
Vsevolod TyagushevMatvey Sbrodovich- NGNikolai GladkovPlenchische
Shukur BurkhanovKalin-Tsar
Sadykbek DzhamanovSartak
Muratek RyskulovNevruy- STShamshi TyumenbaevAzvyak
- ASAn Seong-huiTugar Dancer
Olga Lenskaya(uncredited)
Sergei TroitskyBoyarin (uncredited)
Tamara NosovaBermetovna (uncredited)
Aleksandra DanilovaVasilisa's Mother (uncredited)- LLLev LobovMerchant (uncredited)
Khabibullo AbdurazakovPolovtsian (uncredited)
Directing · 2
- Aleksandr Ptushko Director
- Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh Assistant Director
Writing · 2
- Mikhail Kochnev Writer
- Ignatiy Rostovtsev Script Editor
Production · 1
- Gleb Kuznetsov Executive Producer
Camera · 3
- Fyodor Provorov Director of Photography
- Yuli Kun Director of Photography
- Gennadi Tsekavyi Camera Operator
Editing · 1
- Maria Kuzmina Editor
Sound · 5
- Igor Morozov Original Music Composer
- Maria Blyakhina Sound Director
- Vladimir Bogdankevich Sound Director
- Semyon Sakharov Conductor
- Lev Yakovlev Vocals
Art · 2
- Yevgeniy Kumankov Production Design
- V. Smirnov Construction Manager
Costume & Make-Up · 2
- Olga Kruchinina Costume Design
- I. Chechenin Makeup Artist
Visual Effects · 3
- Boris Travkin VFX Director of Photography
- Yevgeni Svidetelev VFX Artist
- Aleksandr Renkov VFX Director of Photography, Visual Effects Camera
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