The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe

Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe
Russian poster
Directed by	Sergei Tarasov
Written by	Leonid Nekhoroshev Walter Scott (novel)
Starring	Tamara Akulova Peteris Gaudins Boris Khimichev Leonid Kulagin Romualds Ancans Boris Khmelnitsky
Cinematography	Roman Veseler
Music by	Igor Kantyukov
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	1982
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe (Russian: Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго) is a 1983 Soviet adventure film, based on the 1819 novel Ivanhoe by Walter Scott. It reached the 9th place in Soviet box office distribution of 1983 with 28.4 million viewers.

Plot

Production

The filming took place in Khotyn Fortress and Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle. The movie features songs originally written and performed by Vladimir Vysotsky for the 1975 Soviet film The Arrows of Robin Hood, but removed from the latter for political reasons.

Cast

• Tamara Akulova as Lady Rowena
• Peteris Gaudins as Ivanhoe
• Boris Khimichev as Brian De Bois-Guilbert
• Leonid Kulagin as Cedric the Saxon
• Romualds Ancans as Richard the Lionheart
• Boris Khmelnitsky as Robin Hood
• Yuri Smirnov as Friar Tuck
• Aleksandr Filippenko as Wamba
• Vitautas Tomkus as Reginald Front-de-Boeuf
• Algimantas Masiulis as Prince John
• Nikolai Dupak as Prior Aymer
• Maya Bulgakova as Ulrica
• Oleg Fedulov as Knight
• Vladimir Talashko as Messenger
• Grigory Lyampe as Isaac

External links

• The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe at IMDb
• The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe at AllMovie

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