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Accept no substitutes! Aleksandr Ptushko’s fairy-tale folk hero saga is the real deal in medieval spectacle. When the nation calls, warriors rise from the steppes to defend against invaders, even if they have to defy royal authority. The first Soviet film in anamorphic scope and stereophonic sound, Ilya Muromets is an eye-opening series of fantastic characters and storybook episodes, loaded with Ptushko’s amazingly beautiful special effects and jaw-dropping scenes with entire armies filling the scene. The capper is one hell of a fierce dragon — the fire breathing, three-headed Zmey Gorynych!

Ilya Muromets

Blu-ray

Deaf Crocodile / Seagull

1956 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 91 83 min. / Street Date May, 2022 / The Sword and the Dragon, The Epic Hero and the Beast / Available from Vinegar Syndrome / 34.98 & 39.98

Starring: Boris Andreyev, Shukur Burkhanov, Andrei Abrikosov, Natalya Medvedeva, Ninel Myshkova, Sergey Martinson, Georgi Dyomin, Aleksandr Shvorin, Nikolai Gladkov, Vladimir Solovyov.

Cinematography: Fyodor Provorov, Yuli Kun

Production Designer: Yevgeni Kumankov...

“Resistance is useless! I will make you bow to our mighty chief Kalin.”

Deaf Crocodile’s Russian Fantastika collection Includes the 4K Restorations Of Aleksandr Ptushko Fantasy Films “Ilya Muromets (The Sword & The Dragon)” (1956) and “Sampo (The Day The Earth Froze)” (1959), and 2K Restoration Of Karen Shakhnazarov’s Satire “Zerograd (Zero City)” (1988)

Deaf Crocodile, in association with distribution partner Seagull Films, announced today the acquisition of a trio of celebrated Russian titles. The companies will jointly release 4K restorations of famed Russian fantasy filmmaker Aleksandr Ptushko’s stunning 1956 medieval epic Ilya Muromets (The Sword & The Dragon), and his mystical 1959 Finnish/Soviet co-production Sampo (The Day The Earth Froze), as well as a 2K restoration of director Karen Shakhnazarov’s 1988 Kafkaesque satire Zerograd (Zero City). Ilya Muromets and Zerograd will be released in collaboration with legendary Russian studio Mosfilm, which restored them recently. Sampo has been restored by Kavi – the Finnish National Audiovisual Institute.