The Magic Treasure
About The Magic Treasure
The shepherd Bair pulls a magic bird from the claws of a black vulture. The bird gives him a chest: whatever is put in it comes out new, and doubled. The merchant Galsan hears of the chest and cheats Bair out of it.
Cast & crew
More about The Magic Treasure
Dmitriy Babichenko directed and shared the script with Pavel Malyarevsky, from a Buryat-Mongol tale Malyarevsky had written. Mikhail Druyan photographed. Karen Khachaturian wrote the music. Soyuzmultfilm released it in 1950. The Russian title is Волшебный клад. Vladimir Balashov, Vladimir Gribkov, Erast Garin, Aleksandra Panova, and Natalya Gitserot are billed.
Themes
Look
Mikhail Druyan photographed the drawn film.
Music
Karen Khachaturian composed the score.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The chest doubles what is placed in it. It does not simply fill with gold.
- Galsan is a merchant, not a magician.
- The tale is Buryat-Mongol, via Malyarevsky.
- The Russian title is Волшебный клад.
Scenes
- Bair takes the bird from the vulture and receives the chest.
- Galsan talks the chest away from him.
Influenced by
- A Buryat-Mongol tale by Pavel Malyarevsky
