The Man from Nowhere (1961)
In a young anthropologist's dream, he brings a member of the imaginary mountain tribe called Tapi to Moscow, in order to save him from being eaten by other tribesmen as well as to prove the tribe's existence to academia. The main character is probably based on Yeti.
Director: Eldar Ryazanov
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Sergei Yursky as Chudak |
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Yuriy Yakovlev as Vladimir Porazhayev |
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Anatoliy Papanov as Krokhalyov |
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Lyudmila Gurchenko as Lena |
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Anatoli Adoskin as Misha |
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Yuri Belov as Gavrilov - serzhant militsii |
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Ninel Myshkova as Olya |
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Pavel Tarasov as Chlen sportivnogo obshchestva |
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Vladimir Muravyov as Kapitan - nachalnik otdeleniya militsii |
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Yuriy Nikulin as Militsioner (uncredited) |
| Directing | Eldar Ryazanov | Director |
| Writing | Leonid Zorin | Writer |
| Sound | Anatoliy Lepin | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Leonid Kraynenkov | Director of Photography |
| Directing | N. Orlov | Assistant Director |
| Art | Lev Milchin | Production Design |
| Art | Aleksandr Kuznetsov | Production Design |
| Sound | Viktor Zorin | Sound Director |
| Camera | Anatoly Petritsky | Additional Director of Photography |
| Editing | Yekaterina Ovsyannikova | Editor |
| Crew | Vladimir Varkovitskiy | Choreographer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Mariya Zhukova | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Olga Struntsova | Makeup & Hair |
| Writing | Anatoliy Stepanov | Script Editor |
| Visual Effects | Igor Felitsyn | VFX Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Aleksandr Klimenko | VFX Supervisor |
| Visual Effects | V. Stepanov | VFX Supervisor |
| Sound | Arnold Roytman | Conductor |
| Production | Maks Gershengorin | Executive Producer |