Funny Magic (russian: Весёлое волшебство, Vesyoloye volshebstvo) is a 1969 Soviet fairy tale film directed by

Boris Rytsarev Boris Vladimirovich Rytsarev (russian: Борис Владимирович Ры́царев; 30 June 1930 in Moscow – 25 November 1995 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian film director. Filmography Director * 1958 — The Youth of Our F ...

based on the play by Nina Gernet and Grigory Yagdfeld.

Plot

Picking unknown flowers in the field, girl Katya did not even suspect that she had found the miraculous Kashchei's grass that could cast a spell on

Vasilisa the Beautiful Vasilisa the Beautiful (russian: Василиса Прекрасная) or Vasilisa the Fair is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in '' Narodnye russkie skazki''. Synopsis By his first wife, a merchant had a single daughter, ...

. The old cleaning lady Akulina Ivanovna told the girl about this, in the distant past

Baba Yaga In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga, also spelled Baba Jaga (from Polish), is a supernatural being (or one of a trio of sisters of the same name) who appears as a deformed and/or ferocious-looking woman. In fairy tales Baba Yaga flies around in a ...

. Riding on a broomstick, they fly out of the library window towards adventures, grabbing a magic book, without which Kashchei cannot be defeated in any way.Merry Magic
on

Gorky Film Studio Gorky Film Studio (russian: Киностудия имени Горького) is a film studio in Moscow, Russian Federation. By the end of the Soviet Union, Gorky Film Studio had produced more than 1,000 films. Many film classics were filmed ...

Cast

*Marina Kozodaeva as Katya *Andrey Voinovsky as Lisichkin *

Valentina Sperantova Valentina Aleksandrovna Sperantova (russian: Валенти́на Алекса́ндровна Спера́нтова; 1904 — 1978) was a Soviet actress of theater and cinema. People's Artist of the USSR (1970). Member of the CPSU since 1953. ...

as Akulina Ivanovna /

*Elizaveta Uvarova as

Kikimora Kikimora ( rus, кикимора, p=kʲɪˈkʲimərə) is a legendary creature, a female house spirit in Slavic mythology. Her role in the house is usually juxtaposed with that of the domovoy. The kikimora can either be a "bad" or a "good" spirit ...

*Valentin Bryleev as

Leshy The Leshy (also Leshi; rus, леший, p=ˈlʲeʂɨj; literally, " efrom the forest", pl, borowy, leśnik, leśniczy, lasowik, leszy) is a tutelary deity of the forests in pagan Slavic mythology. As the spirit rules over the forest and huntin ...

Fyodor Nikitin Fyodor Mikhailovich Nikitin (russian: Фёдор Миха́йлович Ники́тин; May 3, 1900 in Lokhvytsia – July 17, 1988 in Moscow) was a Soviet film and theater actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR. Winner of two Stalin Prizes fir ...

as Kashchei the Immortal *Natalya Enke as Zoya Petrovna *Svetlana Smekhnova as

Zinaida Vorkul Zinaida Venediktovna Vorkul (russian: Зинаи́да Венеди́ктовна Ворку́ль) (2 May 1909 – 15 December 1994) was a Soviet stage and film actress. She is known for playing character roles, usually as a mother or grandmo ...

as episode (uncredited)

References

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* 1969 films Soviet black-and-white films Gorky Film Studio films Films based on fairy tales Soviet films based on plays 1960s Russian-language films 1960s Soviet films {{child-film-stub