Search - Ilya Muromets on DVD

Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1956 DVD Release: 06/21/2005 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: Arabic, English, French, Russian Subtitles: Dutch, English, French, German, Russian, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 34 mins Studio: Image Entertainment Members Wishing: 4 Genres: Fantasy, Mythological Fantasy, Sword-and-Sorcery, Fantasy Adventure, Fairy Tales & Legends

The original Russian title of The Sword and the Dragon was Ilya Muromets. Boris Andreyev plays the title character, a legendary Russian hero of the Middle Ages. Fact and fantasy meld copacetically as Muromets does battle not only with human adversaries but with three-headed, fire-breathing dragons and other such obstacles. Special effects in Soviet films of the 1950s generally seem to be of the "Howdy Doody" school; not so the effects in Sword and the Dragon, which retain their razzle and dazzle even after 40 years' worth of Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg and the like. Sword and the Dragon was released in the U.S. in 1960, shorn of several minutes' running time. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Boris Andreyev - Ilya Mporometz
Andrei Abrikosov - Prince Vladimir
Natalya Medvedeva
Ninel Myshkova - Vasilisa
Alexander Shvorin