"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
as Yemelya
Georgi Millyar
as Tsar Gorokh
Vladimir Lepko
as Cook
Andrey Fayt
as Mukhamed-aga
Ye. Terentyeva
as Tsarevna Nesmeyana
Lev Potyomkin
as General (as L. Potyomkin)
Aleksandr Zhukov
as Herald
Tatyana Strukova
as Nurse (as T. Strukova)
Lidiya Ryumina
as Nurse
Mariya Kravchunovskaya
as Mama Emeli
Aleksandr Rou
Director
Oleg Leonidov
Writer
Ivan Gorchilin
Director of Photography
Kseniya Blinova
Editor
Aleksei Utkin
Production Design
Vladimir Kochetov
Original Music Composer
Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya
Sergey Yurtsev
Sound Director
S. Kazarov
Camera Operator
Anatoliy Ivanov
Makeup & Hair
Antonina Shalomytova
Choreographer
Konstantin Alekseyev
VFX Director of Photography
N. Levin
VFX Supervisor
Yuriy Nikolayevskiy
Conductor
Viktor Dubrovskiy
A. Panchuk
Producer