Finest, the Brave Falcon

Directed by Gennadi Vasilyev

With Vyacheslav Voskresensky, Svetlana Orlova, Mikhail Kononov, Mikhail Pugovkin and Aleksei Smirnov

This fairy tale film is dedicated to the memory of the great film director Aleksandr Rou, the founder of the genre. Once upon a time there lived a brave and kind hero named Finist the Bright Falcon. He was famous for his strength, courage and a heart of gold. But one day the Russian land was attacked by an evil enemy, Kartaus, who turned our hero into a forest monster. This spell was cast on a condition that Finist might become a man again, should a beautiful girl, Alyonushka, fall in love with him while he was a beast.