Finist - Yasnyy sokol is a Soviet 1975

1975 in film

The year 1975 in film involved some significant events, with Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws topping the box office.-Events:*March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London....

 Slavic fantasy film directed by Gennadi Vasilyev based on a screenplay by Lev Potyomkin and poems by Mikhail Nozhkin. Produced by Gorky Film Studio

Gorky Film Studio

Gorky Film Studio is a film studio in Moscow, Russian Federation. By the end of the Soviet Union, Gorky Film Studio had produced more than 1,000 films...

 (Yalta

Yalta

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 branch). Runtime - 75 min.

Film was loosely based on the fairy-tale with the same name by I. Shestakov.

Film was dedicated to the memory of fairy-tale film director Aleksander Rou.

Original music by Vladimir Shainskiy.

Cast

• Vyacheslav Voskresensky as Finist
• Svetlana Orlova as Alyonushka
• Mikhail Kononov
  Mikhail Kononov
  Mikhail Ivanovich Kononov was a well known Soviet actor.-Biography:He first appeared on stage when at school yet. In 1963 Mikhail Kononov graduated from the Shchepkin Drama School and was admitted to the Maly Theatre...
  
   as Yashka
• Mikhail Pugovkin
  Mikhail Pugovkin
  Mikhail Ivanovich Pugovkin was a Soviet/Russian comic actor named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1988.He studied in the Moscow Art Theatre school under Ivan Moskvin, took part in World War II and, following demobilisation, was featured in the 1944 all-star cast adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The...
  
   as Voyevoda
• Lyudmila Khityayeva as Anfisa
• Georgi Vitsin as Agafon
• Mariya Barabanova as Nenila
• Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova as Veselushka
• Anna Stroganova as Veselushka
• Aleksei Smirnov as Bath-attendant
• Mark Pertsovsky as Kartaus
• Georgi Millyar as Kastryuk
• Lev Potyomkin as Fingal