Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381270327
Format: Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 21, 2005
Running Time: 94 minutes
Sales Rank: 24128
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1956
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Description:
Heroic warrior Ilya Muromets tries to protect Russian land from evil enemies, defeating their thousands-strong army and encountering numerous monsters.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - 4 stars for this fairy tale that keeps on giving...
If you ever saw this movie on TV decades ago and you liked it, just remember
that most of the time it was not in widescreen and after comparing both
versions...you missed a lot.
Now after viewing the film on vhs which is cropped to fit the tv screen, i
got mad and finally found this version. Restored and beautiful musiccal
numbers that were deleted and now available for your enjoyment.
I am now smilling...A great tale for young and old.
A keeper.
Rating: - Wonderful Fantasy Epic
Ilya Muromets is the most famous of the legendary heros of Russia. The acting in this film is stilted, but it is not intended to be a realistic depiction of early Russia. The film is retelling an old legend, and it does so with energy, beauty and imagination. This film will be enjoyed by those with an interest in Russia, folk tales, and good old fashioned heoric adventure.
Rating: - Colorful Russian folk spectacle finally seen in its original version
This DVD of ILYA MUROMETS is long awaited by fans who've seen the film in its English-dubbed U.S. release version, SWORD AND THE DRAGON. This 1956 Soviet spectacle, based on the legend of Ilya Muromets, a Russian folk hero who defended Kiev from the Tartar hordes, was released in the U.S. in 1960 and has come out on VHS in various full-screen versions, including one framed by a badly-shot tacked-on prologue and epilogue involving a little boy who finds a book in a library that tells the story. It's also been ridiculed on "Mystery Science Theater 3000." Here we finally get to see it in a restored print in its proper widescreen dimensions and in Russian with English subtitles.
It follows the rise of Ilya Muromets from his helpless status as a crippled onlooker who watches Tugar raiders invade his village and kidnap his devoted wife, Vassilisa, to a hero of the people who, upon being awarded a magic sword by traveling minstrels, finds he can walk and ride and sets out to capture a wind demon who's been robbing passersby and thus prove to Prince Vladimir at Kiev that he deserves a special place in court. He rescues his wife, but is discredited by a traitor at court and imprisoned only to be called on when the Tugars, under their chief, Kalin, prepare to invade Kiev. Meanwhile his wife has been recaptured by the Tugars and gives birth to Ilya's son, who will not meet his father for several years. It all culminates in a big battle with the Tugars outside of Kiev (employing thousands of extras) ... Read More
Rating:  - overblown
Too much story, too many people and way too much plot - plus some of the worse acting ever make this famous film a disaster. If you must have an Alexander Ptushko film try the much simpler and far better Scarlet Sails.
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