This article is about the 1989 Russian movie. For the 1967 American movie, see Kill a Dragon.
1988 film
To Kill a Dragon
Directed by
Mark Zakharov
Screenplay by
Grigori Gorin
Mark Zakharov
Based on
Dragon by Evgeny Schwartz
Starring
Aleksandr Abdulov
Oleg Yankovsky
Yevgeny Leonov
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Alexandra Zakharova
Viktor Rakov
Cinematography
Vladimir Nakhabtsev
Music by
Gennady Gladkov
Production companies
Mosfilm
Sovinfilm
Bavaria Film
ZDF
Ritm
Release date
1988
Running time
123 minutes
Country
Soviet Union / Germany
Language
Russian
To Kill a Dragon (Russian: Убить дракона, romanized: Ubit drakona) is a 1988 Soviet-German parable fantasy film based on the play of Evgeny Schwartz Dragon (1942–1944), directed by Mark Zakharov (marking his final film until 2002).[1][2][3]
The film was a joint production of Soviet Union and West Germany film stadia Mosfilm (through Sovinfilm), Bavaria Film and ZDF.
^Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova (2016). Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 129. ISBN 978-1-5013-2409-3.
^Anna Lawton (2003). The Red Screen: Politics, Society, Art in Soviet Cinema. Routledge. p. 328. ISBN 978-1-134-89926-5.
^David C. Gillespie (2014). Russian Cinema. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-87412-6.
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