George CUKOR
Джордж КЬЮКОР
Georges CUKOR
USSR / USA, 1976, 99mn 
Colour, fiction
The Blue Bird
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Синяя птица

 

 L'Oiseau bleu

 Sinyaya ptitsa

 
Directed by : George CUKOR (Джордж КЬЮКОР)
Writing credits : Aleksey KAPLER (Алексей КАПЛЕР)
Based on the play of the same title by Maurice Meterlinck.
 
Cast
Igor DMITRIEV (Игорь ДМИТРИЕВ)
Nadezhda PAVLOVA (Надежда ПАВЛОВА) ...the Blue Bird
Margarita TEREKHOVA (Маргарита ТЕРЕХОВА)
Georgi VITSIN (Георгий ВИЦИН)
 
Cinematography : Ionas GRITSIUS (Ионас ГРИЦЮС)
Production design : Marina AZIZYAN (Марина АЗИЗЯН), Valery YURKEVICH (Валерий ЮРКЕВИЧ)
Music : Andrey PETROV (Андрей ПЕТРОВ)
Other persons :
Writing credits : Alfred HAYES, Hugh WHITEMORE
Cinematography : Freddie YOUNG
Music : Irwin KOSTAL
Production Design : Brian WILDSMITH

Actors :
Elizabeth TAYLOR ...Queen of Light / Mother / Witch / Maternal Love
Jane FONDA ...The Night
Ava GARDNER ...Luxury
Cicely TYSON ...Tylette, The Cat

Dancers : Kirov Ballet Company
Production : Lenfilm, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
 

Plot synopsis
A Christmas dream led two children, Titil and Mitil, along the path of cognition, helping to acquire new friends...
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Quand des stars étrangères jouaient dans des films soviétiques, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2021
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2010