The Secret of the Iron Door

The Secret of the Iron Door (Тайна железной двери)
Directed by	Mikhail Yuzovsky
Written by	Alexander Rejzhevsky Yuri Tomin
Produced by	Alexander Kazachkov
Starring	Evaldas Mikaliunas Alisa Freindlich Oleg Tabakov
Cinematography	Vitaly Grishin
Edited by	Yanina Bogolepova
Music by	Vadim Gamaleya
Production company	Gorky Film Studio
Release date	1970 (1970)
Running time	69 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Secret of the Iron Door (Russian: Тайна железной двери, translit. Tayna zheleznoy dveri) is a 1970 Soviet children's film directed by Mikhail Yuzovsky after a screenplay by Aleksandr Rejzhevsky loosely based on a story Wizard Walked Through the City by Yuri Tomin. It was produced by Gorky Film Studio.

Plot summary

Fourth form boy Tolik Ryizhkov (Evaldas Mikaliunas) is a naughty child and fibber. Once he received a box of magic matches while hiding behind the iron door of a transformer booth. Every match, when broken, can act like a magic wand but just once.

A boy with his two friends and a dog find themselves on an island of an evil wizard (Sergei Yevsyunin) of their age, who found the equal box of matches and used them to create his own little egocentric world.

The young wizard put Tolik's friends in prison and is trying to make Tolik as evil as himself. But Tolik stays faithful to his friendship and rescues his friends without the help of any magic.

Cast

• Evaldas Mikaliunas as Tolik (boy)
• Andrei Kharybin as Mishka (boy)
• Dmitri Yuzovsky as Mitka (boy)
• Sergei Yevsyunin as Wizard (boy)
• Alisa Freindlich as Tolik's mother
• Oleg Tabakov as Tolik's father
• Saveli Kramarov as guitar player Zaytsev / Pigeon
• Yuri Uspensky as Robot Balbes
• Alexander Ivanov as traffic policeman
• Gerasim Voronkov as violinist Leonid
• Vyacheslav Tsyupa as Chicha

Supporting cast

• Vladimir Brezhnev, Valeri Fomenkov, Svetlana Galkina
• Tatyana Grishina, Anatoli Ivanov, Eduard Ivanov
• Dmitri Kitayev, Boris Mayorov, Yevgeni Mayorov
• Tatyana Mikhajlova, Vladimir Popkov, Nikolai Sologubov
• Svetlana Starikova, Georgi Svetlani

Crew

• Cinematography by Vitaly Grishin.
• Music by Vadim Gamaleya, lyrics by Evgeny Agranovich.
• Artists by Lyudmila Bezsmertnova, Aleksander Vagichev.
• Editing by Yanina Bogolepova.
• Costumes by M. Tomashevskaya.

Trivia

After transforming back from pigeon into Zaytsev Saveli Kramarov appears nude in the end of the film.

External links

• The Secret of the Iron Door at IMDb