- Kain XVIII
Infobox_Film
name = Kain XVIII
imdb_id = 0176875
director =Nadezhda Kosheverova
Mikhail Shapiro
writer =Evgeny Shvarts
Nikolai Erdman
starring =Erast Garin
Aleksandr Demyanenko
Yuri Lyubimov
producer =Lenfilm
music =Antonio Spadaveccia
cinematography =Eduard Rozovsky
distributor =
released = 1963
runtime = 94 min.
language = RussianKain XVIII ( _ru. Каин XVIII) is a 1963 film from the
Soviet Union , adapted fromEvgeny Shvarts ' tale "Two friends". TheSoviet film industry reported that 21.7 million spectators saw the film.Plot
A famous inventor ("The Professor") creates an extra-powerful weapon—an explosive mosquito. King Kain XVIII dreams of conquering the world and marrying the princess, but she is also loved by Yan, a vagrant musician. Yan's love leads him to surmount many obstacles and simultaneously thwart the insidious plans of the king.
Cast
* King Kain XVIII -
Erast Garin
* Queen Vlasta -Lidiya Sukharevskaya
* Minister of War -Mikhail Zharov
* First Minister -Yuri Lyubimov
* Yan -Aleksandr Demyanenko
* Jan -Stanislav Khitrov
* Foreign Governess -Rina Zelyonaya
* Professor -Alexandr Beniaminov
* Chief of Secret Police -Bruno Freindlich
* Freelance Hangman -Georgi Vitsin
* Lavatory Worker -Boris Chirkov
* General -Igor Dmitriev
* First Dame -Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova
* Professor's Wife -Marina Polbentseva
* Agent 214 -Nikolai Trofimov
* Agent with a carnation -Anatoly Korolkevich External links
*imdb title|id=0176875|title=Kain XVIII
*ru icon [http://ru.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD_XVIII_(%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC) In ru.wikiquote]
*ru icon [http://taganka.theatre.ru/lubimov/6387/ Yuri Lyubimov about film]
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