The Secret of the Iron Door (Тайна железной двери) | |
Director: | Mikhail Yuzovsky |
Producer: | Alexander Kazachkov |
Starring: | Evaldas Mikaliunas Alisa Freindlich Oleg Tabakov |
Music: | Vadim Gamaleya |
Cinematography: | Vitaly Grishin |
Editing: | Yanina Bogolepova |
Studio: | Gorky Film Studio |
Runtime: | 69 minutes |
Country: | Soviet Union |
Language: | Russian |
The Secret of the Iron Door (Russian: Тайна железной двери, translit. Tayna zheleznoy dveri) is a 1970 Soviet children's film directed by Mikhail Yuzovsky after a screenplay by Aleksandr Rejzhevsky loosely based on a story Wizard Walked Through the City by Yuri Tomin. It was produced by Gorky Film Studio.[1]
Fourth form boy Tolik Ryizhkov (Evaldas Mikaliunas) is a naughty child and fibber. Once he received a box of magic matches while hiding behind the iron door of a transformer booth. Every match, when broken, can act like a magic wand but just once.
A boy with his two friends and a dog find themselves on an island of an evil wizard (Sergei Yevsyunin) of their age, who found the equal box of matches and used them to create his own little egocentric world.
The young wizard put Tolik's friends in prison and is trying to make Tolik as evil as himself. But Tolik stays faithful to his friendship and rescues his friends without the help of any magic.
After transforming back from pigeon into Zaytsev Saveli Kramarov appears nude in the end of the film.