The Golden Snake

The Golden Snake
Directed by Vladimir Makeranets
Produced by Gennady Bokarev, Vladimir Makeranets, Natalya Nikonova
Written by Gennady Bokarev
Starring Ivan Bobylyov, Oleg Yagodin
Music by Sergei Starostin, Andrey Doynikov
Cinematography Nikolay Banko
Production
company
Release date
  • 2007 (2007)
Running time
 85 minutes
Country  Russia
Language Russian

The Golden Snake (Russian: Золотой полоз, tr. Zolotoy poloz) is a 2007 Russian fantasy film directed by Vladimir Makeranets. It is an loose adaptation of Pavel Bazhov's story "The Great Snake" based on the Ural region Russian folklore. It was financed of the Ministry of Culture of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography. The Golden Snake was awarded the "Best Children's Film" prize at the Russian film festival Literatura i Kino in 2008.[1]

In the film, two boys meet the legendary creature the Great Snake (also translated as Poloz the Great Snake[2]) from the Ural folklore that has control over gold.

Cast

  • Ivan Bobylyov as Semyonitch / Poloz the Great Snake
  • Oleg Yagodin as Koska (adult)
  • Yaroslav Andreev as Koska (child)
  • Pavel Oznobishin as Deniska (adult)
  • Vanya Sukhoverkhy as Deniska (child)
  • Yelena Golunenko as Dunyasha
  • Valery Smirnov as Zhabrey
  • Vladimir Ivansky as Levonty
  • Anton Kazakov as Pantyukha
  • Dmitry Zakharov as Nikolka (adult)
  • Alexander Mikhailov as Nikolka (young)
  • Vyacheslav Kokorin as Yefimitch
  • Vyacheslav Chuisov as Matvey
  • Valery Seregin as Osip

References

  1. ↑ Четырнадцатый кинофестиваль Литература и кино (архив 2008 год). Участники. Фильмы
  2. ↑ "The Malachite Casket: Tales from the Urals – Pavel Bazhov, Alan Moray Williams". Little White Crow. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  • "Золотой полоз" [The Great Snake] (in Russian). Kino-Teatr.ru. Retrieved 8 December 2015.


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