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The Flying Carpet

Original title: Starik Khottabych
  • 19571957
  • GG
  • 1h 26m
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Nikolay Volkov in The Flying Carpet (1957)
AdventureFamilyFantasy
A boy finds a special jug and releases an ancient genie. The powerful and kind wizard is ready to fulfill all desires, but he doesn't know anything about the reality of the 20th century.A boy finds a special jug and releases an ancient genie. The powerful and kind wizard is ready to fulfill all desires, but he doesn't know anything about the reality of the 20th century.A boy finds a special jug and releases an ancient genie. The powerful and kind wizard is ready to fulfill all desires, but he doesn't know anything about the reality of the 20th century.
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
1.4K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
119,846
31,689
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    • Director
      • Gennadiy Kazanskiy
    • Writer
      • Lazar Lagin(novel)
    • Stars
      • Nikolay Volkov
      • Aleksei Litvinov
      • Gennadi Khudyakov
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Gennadiy Kazanskiy
    • Writer
      • Lazar Lagin(novel)
    • Stars
      • Nikolay Volkov
      • Aleksei Litvinov
      • Gennadi Khudyakov
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    • 5User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    Gennadi Khudyakov, Aleksei Litvinov, and Nikolay Volkov in The Flying Carpet (1957)
    Aleksei Litvinov in The Flying Carpet (1957)
    Gennadi Khudyakov and Aleksei Litvinov in The Flying Carpet (1957)
    Gennadi Khudyakov in The Flying Carpet (1957)
    Aleksei Litvinov in The Flying Carpet (1957)
    Aleksei Litvinov in The Flying Carpet (1957)
    Nikolay Volkov in The Flying Carpet (1957)
    Aleksei Litvinov in The Flying Carpet (1957)
    Nikolay Volkov in The Flying Carpet (1957)
    Aleksei Litvinov and Nikolay Volkov in The Flying Carpet (1957)
    Nikolay Volkov in The Flying Carpet (1957)
    Aleksei Litvinov in The Flying Carpet (1957)

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    Nikolay Volkov
    Nikolay Volkov
    • Hassan Abdurrahman ibn Khottab, the genie
    Aleksei Litvinov
    Aleksei Litvinov
    • Volka, the boy
    • (as Alyosha Litvinov)
    Gennadi Khudyakov
    Gennadi Khudyakov
    • Zhenia, his friend
    • (as Genya Khudyakov)
    Lev Kovalchuk
    Lev Kovalchuk
    • Gogha, the bully
    • (as Lyova Kovalchuk)
    Valentina Romanova
    Valentina Romanova
    • Gogha's Mother
    • (as V. Romanova)
    Maya Blinova
    • Volka's mother
    • (as M. Blinova)
    Olga Cherkasova
    • Barbara Stepanovna, the teacher
    • (as O. Cherkasova)
    Yefim Kopelyan
    Yefim Kopelyan
    • Emir Mukhammedov
    Aleksandr Larikov
    • Gogha's Doctor
    • (as A. Larikov)
    Evgeniy Vesnik
    Evgeniy Vesnik
    A. Galin
    Boris Kokovkin
    Boris Kokovkin
    Anatoly Korolkevich
    Anatoly Korolkevich
    Vsevolod Kuznetsov
    Vsevolod Kuznetsov
      M. Stepanov
      Vasili Leonov
      • Vasya Kazantsev
      • (uncredited)
      Zinaida Sharko
      Zinaida Sharko
      • Cameo
      • (uncredited)
      • Director
        • Gennadiy Kazanskiy
      • Writer
        • Lazar Lagin(novel) (screenplay)
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      7/10
      Unique Stalinist Fantasy with heart and morale
      Starik Khottabych is classic Soviet film, which screenplay is based on a bestseller, Lazar Lagin's book. The book was some kind of modern Harry Potter novels for soviet kids.Personally, I've read that book about 10 times when I was a kid.It's about a pioneer (communistic analogue of boyscout) who finds a genie bottle in 1930's.Boy calls the genie "starik Khottabych", it's hard to translate this name, because russian "starik" literally means "old man" in English but starik has another sense, while Khottabych is a usual for russians and ukrainians second name, which means "son of Khottab".Overally the boy thinks of genie as an old baby and tries to learn how to use genie's abilities to help his friends, his favourite soccer team and so on.Pioneer don't bothers about money, his main concern is how to make Khottabych a true communist. This film may be influenced by Comrade Stalin himself, but it doesn't mean nothing today.It's moral is looking naive for modern kids in ex-USSR, they prefer to watch meaningless Pokemon cartoons.Still, if you want to know something about such an unique thing as Soviet Fantasy, this movie is one of the few examples of it.
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      • Release date
        • February 27, 1960 (United States)
      • Country of origin
        • Soviet Union
      • Language
        • Russian
      • Also known as
        • Yaşlı Hottabiç
      • Filming locations
        • Moscow, Russia
      • Production company
        • Lenfilm Studio
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      • Runtime
        1 hour 26 minutes
      • Color
        • Color
      • Sound mix
        • Mono
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.37 : 1

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