The Strongest (1974)
Once upon a time, miles and miles away, there was an old man with an old woman. They spent with each other a long time but had no children. One day an old man made a dolly of dough, put her on the oven, and suddenly a baby was born out of a dolly, and he wasnt a simple child, because he grew before their eyes, ate like seven, until he grew into a huge and strong guy. There was the thing that grieved old men, that he had no heart, after all, he was made of dough. Once he met a neighboring beauty girl, paid compliments to her, fooling around, she thought he had fallen in love, and didnt know at that time that he had no heart, and fell in love with the hercules. He started getting cast down, and headed, as they say, to show his worth and see the others
Director:
Oleg Nikolayevsky
Writer:
Yaroslav Filippov
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Nikolai Merzlikin as Батыр |
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Yevgeni Vesnik as халиф / визирь |
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Tatyana Klyuyeva as Гюльчек |
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Vladimir Doveiko as Див |
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Kapitolina Lamochkina as бабка |
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Pavel Fedoseev as дед |
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Inna Kmit as царевна |
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Adolf Ilyin as Мусабай |
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Yury Melnitsky as скороход |
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Evgeny Polikanin as слухач |
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Arkady Pyshnyak as стрелок |
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Evgeny Bugrov as шут |
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Konstantin Maksimov as Blacksmith |
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Daniil Netrebin as путник |
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Sergey Nikolaev as Vetroduy |
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Vladimir Dubrovskiy as глашатай |
| Sound | Yevgeni Stikhin | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Yaroslav Filippov | Screenplay |
| Editing | T. Protopopova | Editor |
| Camera | Vasily Kirbizhekov | Director of Photography |
| Art | Vladislav Rastorguev | Production Design |
| Writing | Grigori Pozhenyan | Lyricist |
| Sound | Viktor Chulkov | Sound Director |
| Sound | Lyudmila Bondarenko | Sound Director |
| Directing | M. Bogoroditskiy | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Viktor Obukhov | Assistant Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | L. Khalzanova | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | V. Egorov | Makeup Artist |
| Writing | Oleg Khomyakov | Script Editor |
| Crew | Yuriy Korovkin | Choreographer |
| Sound | I. Orlov | Music Editor |
| Directing | V. Kolmogorova | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | L. Berkut | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | L. Smirnitskaya | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | B. Sokolov | Second Assistant Director |
| Camera | R. Dolnykov | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Yevgeni Berkut | Assistant Camera |
| Art | Vladimir Korovin | Assistant Production Design |
| Art | Tatyana Filatova | Assistant Production Design |
| Visual Effects | N. Sabirov | Pyrotechnic Supervisor |
| Visual Effects | Stepan Kisel | VFX Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | A. Kampf | VFX Artist |
| Sound | David Shtilman | Conductor |
| Sound | Viktor Smirnov | Conductor |
| Production | Pavel Smerdev | Executive Producer |
| Directing | Oleg Nikolayevsky | Director |