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Directed by
  
Alexander Rowe

Cinematography
  
Dmitri Surensky

Director
  
Alexander Rou

Music director
  
Arkady Filippenko

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3.1/5
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Music by
  
Arkadi Filippenko

Initial release
  
30 December 1970

Production company
  
Gorky Film Studio

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Written by
  
Mikhail Chuprin Aleksandr Rowe

Based on
  
The Tale of Tsar Berendey by Vasily Zhukovsky

Starring
  
Mikhail Pugovkin Georgy Millyar Anatoly Kubatsky

Cast
  
Georgy Millyar, Mikhail Pugovkin, Anatoly Kubatsky

Similar
  
Fire - Water - and Brass Pipes, Vasilisa the Beautiful, The Magic Weaver, Jack Frost, The Golden Horns

Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair (Russian: Варвара-краса, длинная коса) is a 1969 Soviet fantasy film directed by Alexander Rowe and based on the fairy tale The Tale of Tsar Berendey by Vasily Zhukovsky.

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The film premiered December 30, 1970.

Plot

Once upon a time there was a king Yeremei. He went to the annual campaign to make an inventory of his kingdom-state. He leaned over once to the well to drink, but immediately grabbed by the underwater tsar Chudo - Yudo. Demanded a ransom for the release - such as Jeremiah did not know or wondered what it is in his kingdom. The king agreed, not knowing that in the absence of the queen gave birth to a son.

Cast

  • Mikhail Pugovkin as tsar Yeremei (the king)
  • Georgy Millyar as Chudo-Yudo (slavic monster, the underwater king)
  • Anatoly Kubatsky as Afonya, dyak
  • Aleksei Katyshev as Andrey, son of a fisherman
  • Sergei Nikolaev as Andrey, the tsar's son
  • Tatiana Klyueva as Varvara-beauty, daughter of Chudo-Yudo
  • Varvara Popova as Stepanida, nanny
  • Most real pirates:
  • Alexander Khvylya as Duc de la Wolf
  • Lev Potyomkin as Marquis de la Kis
  • Arkady Zinman as Baron de la Pig
  • Isaac Leongarov as Viscount de la Dog
  • Boris Sichkin as Groom-prestidigitator
  • Valentina Ananina as fisherwoman
  • Vera Altayskaya as starushka-veselushka (old lady jester)
  • Anastasia Zuyeva as narrator

    • Interesting facts

  • The shooting took place on the banks of the Moscow River, near the Pioneer Camp Mirny, the name of Sergei Kirov (at Moscow Institute of Thermal), located near the village of Anikovo village of Odintsovsky District, Moscow Oblast.

    • References

    Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair Wikipedia
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