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Ruslan and Ludmila (film)

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Ruslan and Ludmila
DVD cover
Directed byAleksandr Ptushko
Written byAleksandr Ptushko
Samuil Bolotin (poetic dialogs)
Alexander Pushkin (original poem)
Produced byArkady Ashkinazi
StarringValeri Kozinets
Natalya Petrova
Andrei Abrikosov
Vladimir Fyodorov
Vyacheslav Nevinny
CinematographyIgor Geleyn
Valentin Zakharov
Music byTikhon Khrennikov
Distributed byMosfilm
Release date
  • 1972 (1972)
Running time
85 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Ruslan and Ludmila (Russian: «Руслан и Людмила») is a 1972 film directed by Aleksandr Ptushko. It is based on the 1820 poem of the same name written by Alexander Pushkin.

It is the last of the many fairytale films Ptushko directed, and, according to film critics, the most successful. Ptushko died a year after this film was released.

Plot

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The hero of the movie is the bogatyr Ruslan who sets off in search of his kidnapped bride, Ludmila. To rescue his beloved, he will have to overcome many obstacles, and battle the sorcerers Chernomor and Naina.

Cast

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Awards

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  • 1976 — the International film festival of children's and youthful movies in Salerno (Italy) — a special award of jury

The edition on video

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In 1990 in the USSR the movie is released on VHS by the film association "Krupnyy Plan".

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