Practical Effects
Creature effects that are nightmare fuel and art simultaneously.
Costume
Kashchei's makeup — twelve hours daily to become immortal.
Production
Sets that look like someone ate a folk painting and built what they dreamed.
Director
Aleksandr Rou
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Georgi Millyar played Kashchei in multiple Rou films; his makeup took so long he learned to sleep sitting up in the chair.
Rou's fairy tales were state-approved escapism during the Thaw — fantastical worlds where individual heroism still mattered.
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