Ruslan i Ljudmila

Руслан и Людмила / Ruslan ja Ljudmila / Ruslan och Ljudmila / Ruslan and Lyudmila. SU (c) 1972 Mosfilm, released in 1973. D: Alexander Ptushko - from the poem by A.S. Pushkin (1820). DP: Igor Gelein, V. Zaharov - Sovcolor. FX: I. Felintsyn. PD: Jevgeni Serganov. COST: Olga Krutshinina. CAST: Natalja Petrova (Lyudmila), Valeri Kozinets (Ruslan), Vladimir Fedorov (Chernomor). 147 min. A vintage print with e-subtitles in Finnish by Tuulia Lehtonen. Viewed at Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 17 Jan 2009. - A soft Sovcolor print. - The launching film of our The Secret History of Soviet Cinema curated by Lauri Lehtinen and Antti Suonio. - I watched the start only. The film has the sense of the mythical grandeur of a fairy-tale epic, as did Ptushko's Ilya Muromez. It takes place in the mythical 9th-10th centuries of the old Russian principality of Kiev. - The performance was well attended. This film has a new fascination in the era of the new popularity of The Lord of the Rings.