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Production Companies
Melnitsa Animation Studio
Three Heroes and the Shamakhan Queen (Три богатыря и Шамаханская царица)
Overview
A bogatyr is an epic warrior from ancient Kievan Rus. Most are directed in the traditional bylinas, traditional Russian epic poems, as being endowed with enormous strength and cunning, although often not completely immune to human weaknesses. Here, our three heroes gather together once more to rescue the ruler of the land from the attempts of an evil foreign queen. She plans to make him fall in love with her so her youth and beauty can be renewed, but in exchange will destroy his kingdom.
Key Crew
Director: Sergey Glezin
Writer: Alexandr Boyarsky
Producer: Sergei Selyanov, Alexandr Boyarsky
Screenplay: Olga Nikiforova
Top Cast
Valeri Solovyev
Dobrynya (voice)
Anna Geller
Queen (voice)
Oleg Kulikovich
Alesha Popovich / Dragon (voice)
Liya Medvedeva
Lyubava (voice)
Sergey Makovetskiy
Prince of Kiev (voice)
Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov
Ilya Muromets (voice)
Dmitry Vysotsky
Yuliy the horse (voice)
Konstantin Bronzit
crow (voice)
