Kain XVIII is a 1963 film from the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

, adapted from Evgeny Shvarts

Evgeny Shvarts

Evgeny Lvovich Shvarts was a Soviet writer and playwright whose works include twenty-five plays and screenplays for three films .- Life :...

' tale Two friends. The Soviet film industry reported that 21.7 million spectators saw the film.

Plot

A famous inventor ("The Professor") creates an extra-powerful weapon—an explosive mosquito. King Kain XVIII dreams of conquering the world and marrying the princess, but she is also loved by Yan, a vagrant musician. Yan's love leads him to surmount many obstacles and simultaneously thwart the insidious plans of the king.

Cast

• King Kain XVIII - Erast Garin
  Erast Garin
  Erast Pavlovich Garin was, together with Igor Ilyinsky and Sergey Martinson, one of the leading comic actors of Vsevolod Meyerhold's company and of the Soviet cinema. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1977....
  
  
• Queen Vlasta - Lidiya Sukharevskaya
  Lidiya Sukharevskaya
  Lidiya Sukharevskaya was a Soviet stage actress and playwright renowned for her work with Nikolay Akimov and Andrey Goncharov. Her frequent stage partner was Boris Tenin, her husband. She also appeared in 14 films between 1939 and 1981...
  
  
• Minister of War - Mikhail Zharov
  Mikhail Zharov
  Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov was a Russian actor.He studied under the prominent director Theodore Komisarjevsky and debuted in Yakov Protazanov's Aelita...
  
  
• First Minister - Yuri Lyubimov
  Yuri Lyubimov
  Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov is a Soviet and Russian stage actor and director associated with the internationally-renowned Taganka Theatre which he founded ,...
  
  
• Yan - Aleksandr Demyanenko
  Aleksandr Demyanenko
  Aleksandr Sergeievich Demyanenko was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR.-Early life:Aleksandr Demyanenko was born in Sverdlovsk, USSR in 1937. He went to a music school from 1946 to 1952. In 1954 he failed to enter the school of arts. In 1955, however, he...
  
  
• Jan - Stanislav Khitrov
• Foreign Governess - Rina Zelyonaya
• Professor - Alexandr Beniaminov
• Chief of Secret Police - Bruno Freindlich
  Bruno Freindlich
  Bruno Arturovich Freindlich was a Soviet/Russian actor of German ancestry who became People's Artist of the USSR in 1974. His daughter Alisa Freindlich is also a notable actress.-Biography:...
  
  
• Freelance Hangman - Georgi Vitsin
• Lavatory Worker - Boris Chirkov
  Boris Chirkov
  Boris Petrovich Chirkov was a Soviet actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1928 and 1975. In 1941, he was awarded the Stalin Prize; in 1975, he was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labour.-Selected filmography:* Alone * Chapaev...
  
  
• General - Igor Dmitriev
  Igor Dmitriev
  Igor Borisovich Dmitriev was a Russian film and theater actor who specialized in playing aristocratic characters in costume productions ....
  
  
• First Dame - Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova
• Professor's Wife - Marina Polbentseva
• Agent 214 - Nikolai Trofimov
• Agent with a carnation - Anatoly Korolkevich

External links

In ru.wikiquote Yuri Lyubimov about film