Finest, the brave Falcon
Finist – Yasnyy sokol (Russian: Финист - Ясный сокол, English: Finest, the brave Falcon, German: Finist, heller Falke) is a Soviet 1975 Slavic fantasy film directed by Gennadi Vasilyev based on a screenplay by Lev Potyomkin and poems by Mikhail Nozhkin. Produced by Gorky Film Studio (Yalta branch). Runtime - 75 min.
Film was loosely based on the fairy-tale with the same name by I. Shestakov.
Film was dedicated to the memory of fairy-tale film director Aleksander Rou.
Original music by Vladimir Shainskiy.
Cast
- Vyacheslav Voskresensky as Finist
- Svetlana Orlova as Alyonushka
- Mikhail Kononov as Yashka
- Mikhail Pugovkin as Voyevoda
- Lyudmila Khityayeva as Anfisa
- Georgi Vitsin as Agafon
- Mariya Barabanova as Nenila
- Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova as Veselushka
- Anna Stroganova as Veselushka
- Aleksei Smirnov as Bath-attendant
- Mark Pertsovsky as Kartaus
- Georgi Millyar as Kastryuk
- Lev Potyomkin as Fingal