Another large scale mythological fantasy film from Aleksandr Ptushko. This film complements my previous viewing of his large scale Russian epic Ilya Muromets.
The film was photographed in wide screen in Finland on some impressive wilderness locations. The special effects are fairly decent for a 1959's film.
The story once again is a larger than life tale involving and evil witch capturing the sun which plunges the world into winter and darkness.
If you have a fondness for this type of epic film this and Ilya Muromets are worth a look
The screenplay is by Väinö Kaukonen Viktor Vitkovich and Grigori Yagdfeld.The film exists in many different versions, I watched the 91 minute edit.
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