Fantasy ·Family · Soviet Union · 1938 · 57m

Wish upon a Pike

По щучьему веленью

Director

Cast

Pyotr Savin as Yemelya Georgi Millyar as Tsar Gorokh Vladimir Lepko as Cook Andrey Fayt as Mukhamed-aga Ye. Terentyeva as Tsarevna Nesmeyana Lev Potyomkin as General (as L. Potyomkin)

Crew

Ivan Gorchilin — Director of Photography Kseniya Blinova — Editor Vladimir Kochetov — Original Music Composer Oleg Leonidov — Writer Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya — Writer A. Panchuk — Producer

Synopsis

Adapted from four different Russian folk-tales, this early Soviet fantasy film tells the story of Emelya the Fool, who, fishing one day, catches a talking pike who pleads for his life and in return grants Emelya wishes for a life spared.

Key Collaborators

Aleksandr Rou Director Ivan Gorchilin Director of Photography Kseniya Blinova Editor Vladimir Kochetov Original Music Composer Oleg Leonidov Writer Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya Writer A. Panchuk Producer Aleksei Utkin Production Design

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