The Headless Horseman (1973 film)

The Headless Horseman
Directed byVladimir Vajnshtok
Written byVladimir Vajnshtok
Pavel Finn
StarringOleg Vidov
Ludmila Savelyeva
Aarne Üksküla
Ivan Ivanovich Petrov
Music byNikita Bogoslovsky
Production
company
Release date
  • 1973 (1973)
Running time
104 minutes
CountriesSoviet Union
Cuba
LanguageRussian
Box office51,7 million tickets sold[1][2]

The Headless Horseman (Russian: Всадник без головы, romanizedVsadnik bez golovy) is a 1973 Soviet-Cuban Red Western film directed by Vladimir Vajnshtok based on the eponymous novel by Thomas Mayne Reid.[3][4] The film was the first Soviet Western. It was a box office success, 51,7 million tickets were sold and the picture holds the 33rd place in terms of cinema attendance in the Soviet Union.[5][6]

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  2. ^ "Всадник без головы". KinoPoisk.
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  5. ^ ""Всадник без головы": техасские прерии под Белогорском". RIA Novosti. 6 August 2016.
  6. ^ Sergey Kudryavtsev. "Отечественные фильмы в советском кинопрокате".