To Kill a Dragon

This article is about the 1989 Russian movie. For the 1967 American movie, see Kill a Dragon.
To Kill a Dragon
Directed byMark Zakharov
Screenplay by
Based onDragon by Evgeny Schwartz
Starring
CinematographyVladimir Nakhabtsev
Music byGennady Gladkov
Production
companies
Release date
  • 1988 (1988)
Running time
123 minutes
CountrySoviet Union / Germany
LanguageRussian

To Kill a Dragon (Russian: Убить дракона, romanized: Ubit drakona) is a 1988 Soviet-German parable fantasy film based on the play of Evgeny Schwartz Dragon (1942–1944), directed by Mark Zakharov (marking his final film until 2002).[1][2][3]

The film was a joint production of Soviet Union and West Germany film stadia Mosfilm (through Sovinfilm), Bavaria Film and ZDF.

  1. ^ Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova (2016). Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 129. ISBN 978-1-5013-2409-3.
  2. ^ Anna Lawton (2003). The Red Screen: Politics, Society, Art in Soviet Cinema. Routledge. p. 328. ISBN 978-1-134-89926-5.
  3. ^ David C. Gillespie (2014). Russian Cinema. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-87412-6.