Mark ZAKHAROV
Марк ЗАХАРОВ
Marc ZAKHAROV
USSR / Germany, 1988, 123mn 
Colour, fiction
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 To Kill the Dragon

 Tuer le dragon

Other titles : Tod dem Drachen
 
Directed by : Mark ZAKHAROV (Марк ЗАХАРОВ)
Writing credits : Grigori GORIN (Григорий ГОРИН), Mark ZAKHAROV (Марк ЗАХАРОВ)
 
Cast
Aleksandr ABDULOV (Александр АБДУЛОВ) ...Lancelot
Oleg YANKOVSKY (Олег ЯНКОВСКИЙ) ...Dragon
Ivan AGAPOV (Иван АГАПОВ) ...blacksmith
Aleksandr FILIPPENKO (Александр ФИЛИППЕНКО)
Yevgeni LEONOV (Евгений ЛЕОНОВ) ...burgomaster
Vyacheslav TIKHONOV (Вячеслав ТИХОНОВ)
 
Cinematography : Vladimir NAKHABTSEV (Владимир НАХАБЦЕВ)
Music : Gennadi GLADKOV (Геннадий ГЛАДКОВ)
Companies : Mosfilm, Bavaria-Film
Release Date in Russia : 01/1989
 

Awards :
Best music Gennadi GLADKOV , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1989

Plot synopsis
Based on Eugeny Shvartz’s famous play-fairytale «The Dragon». The dragon, as an absolute evil, is dangerous not due to its cruelty only but the ability to gain on any human sole, warp it and make a human spiritually bankrupt. First and foremost, it is necessary «to kill the dragon» in yourself, that is the way to recovery one’s human dignity.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Stalin in contemporary Russian cinema, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2011
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2003
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1989