Finest, the Brave Falcon (1975)
Финист – Ясный сокол
This fairy tale film is dedicated to the memory of the great film director Aleksandr Rou, the founder of the genre. Once upon a time there lived a brave and kind hero named Finist the Bright Falcon. He was famous for his strength, courage and a heart of gold. But one day the Russian land was attacked by an evil enemy, Kartaus, who turned our hero into a forest monster. This spell was cast on a condition that Finist might become a man again, should a beautiful girl, Alyonushka, fall in love with him while he was a beast.
- Date of release
- 1975-12-30
- TMDB
- 6.1 / 10 (16)
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Genres
- Family, Fantasy
- Director
- Gennadi Vasilyev
Casting
- Vyacheslav Voskresensky — Finist
- Svetlana Orlova — Alyonushka
- Mikhail Kononov — Yashka
- Mikhail Pugovkin — Voyevoda
- Aleksei Smirnov — Bath-attendant
- Lyudmila Khityaeva — Anfisa
- Georgiy Vitsin — Agafon
- Mariya Barabanova — Nenila
- Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova — Veselushka
- Anna Stroganova — Veselushka
- Mark Pertsovskiy — Kartaus
- Georgi Millyar — Kastryuk
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