---
title: 'Ilya Muromets (1956)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Aleksandr Ptushko'
released: '1956-09-16'
runtime_minutes: 88
genres:
  - 'Fantasy'
  - 'Adventure'
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/ilya-muromets-1956'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049358/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Ilya Muromets (1956)

1956 · 88 min · Fantasy, Adventure · Soviet Union

Original title: Илья Муромец

## Synopsis

Ilya Muromets, also known as The Sword and the Dragon (US) and The Epic Hero and the Beast (UK), is a 1956 Soviet fantasy film by noted fantasy director Aleksandr Ptushko and produced at Mosfilm. It is based on the old Russian oral epic poems about the knight Ilya Muromets.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Aleksandr Ptushko](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-ptushko)
- **Screenplay:** [Mikhail Kochnev](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikhail-kochnev)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Igor Morozov](https://cinepixo.com/people/igor-morozov)
- **Director of Photography:** [Julij Kuhn](https://cinepixo.com/people/julij-kuhn), [Fyodor Provorov](https://cinepixo.com/people/fyodor-provorov), [Boris Travkin](https://cinepixo.com/people/boris-travkin), [Aleksandr Renkov](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-renkov)

## Cast

- [Natalya Medvedeva](https://cinepixo.com/people/natalya-medvedeva)
- [Andrei Abrikosov](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrei-abrikosov)
- [Tamara Nosova](https://cinepixo.com/people/tamara-nosova)
- [Ivan Ryzhov](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivan-ryzhov)
- [Mikhail Pugovkin](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikhail-pugovkin)
- [Alexandra Danilova](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexandra-danilova)
- [Iya Arepina](https://cinepixo.com/people/iya-arepina)
- [Stepan Kayukov](https://cinepixo.com/people/stepan-kayukov)
- [Sergey Martinson](https://cinepixo.com/people/sergey-martinson)
- [Sergei Stolyarov](https://cinepixo.com/people/sergei-stolyarov)
- [Boris Andreyev](https://cinepixo.com/people/boris-andreyev)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/ilya-muromets-1956
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