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THE OLD MAN KHOTTABYCH
1956, 86 min., color.
Adventure.
Director: Gennadi Kazansky, screenplay: Lazar Lagin (based on his novel of the same title)
Taking a swim in the Moskva River, the schoolboy Volka Kostylkov finds an ancient clay vessel on its bottom.
Opened by Volka, the vessel released the ghost Gassan Abdurakhman ibn Khottab. In appreciation of his newly found freedom the ghost, to whom Volka attributes the name of Khottabych, grants his rescuer his wishes. Strange happenings begin to occur in Moscow...
Encouragement Award at the IFF in Vancouver, Canada (1958).
Honorary Diploma at the 1st International Children’s
Film Festival in Panama (1971).
Encouragement Diploma at the 1st All-Union Film Festival (1958).
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Films for young audience/family films, fairy tales