

Adapted from four different Russian folk-tales, this early Soviet fantasy film tells the story of Emelya the Fool, who, fishing one day, catches a talking pike who pleads for his life and in return grants Emelya wishes for a life spared.

Pyotr Savin
Yemelya

Georgi Millyar
Tsar Gorokh

Vladimir Lepko
Cook

Andrey Fayt
Mukhamed-aga

Ye. Terentyeva
Tsarevna Nesmeyana

Lev Potyomkin
General (as L. Potyomkin)
Aleksandr Zhukov
Herald

Tatyana Strukova
Nurse (as T. Strukova)
Lidiya Ryumina
Nurse
Mariya Kravchunovskaya
Mama Emeli
Aleksandr Rou
Oleg Leonidov, Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya
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