The Magic Seed
About The Magic Seed
The bogatyr Master-of-All-Trades gives Andrei and Mariika a magic seed that will feed people if the children stay friends and look after it. They plant it. Kara-Mor sends an army of weevils against the sprout.
Cast & crew
More about The Magic Seed
Valentin Kadochnikov and Fyodor Filippov directed. Aleksey Simukov wrote the screenplay. It opened in April 1942 at the Udarnik cinema in Moscow. Kadochnikov, already ill, died in December 1942 while gathering saxaul in evacuation. Filippov said he volunteered and served as a war cameraman.
Themes
Background
Moscow saw it in April 1942, in the second year of the war.
Making
The two directors split after the shoot: Kadochnikov died in evacuation in December 1942, and Filippov went to the front as a cameraman.
Look
Boris Gorbachyov and Fyodor Firsov photographed it.
Music
Lev Shvarts wrote the music.
Notes
- Vladimir Tumalaryants plays Andrei. Nina Zavarova plays Mariika. Ivan Pereverzev plays the bogatyr. Vladimir Gribkov plays Grandfather Know-All.
- Aleksey Kelberer plays Kara-Mor. Sergei Martinson plays Zhivoglot, the glutton. Stepan Kayukov plays the Wind. Galina Kireyevskaya plays Aunt Katerina. Oleg Bant plays a Black child.
Scenes
- The bogatyr hands Andrei and Mariika the seed.
- Kara-Mor looses weevils on the planted grain.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Волшебное зерно (1941).webm)