The Secret of the Iron Door is a 1970

1970 in film

The year 1970 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 9 - Larry Fine, the second member of The Three Stooges, suffers a massive stroke, therefore ending his career....

 Soviet children's film

Children's film

A children's film is a film aimed for children as its audience. As opposed to a family film, no special effort is made to make the film attractive for other audiences. The film may or may not be about children. In Unshrinking the Kids: Children's Cinema and the Family Film which is a chapter in In...

 directed by Mikhail Yuzovsky after a screenplay by Aleksandr Rejzhevsky loosely based on a story Wizard walked through the city by Yuri Tomin. Produced by Gorky Film Studio

Gorky Film Studio

Gorky Film Studio is a film studio in Moscow, Russian Federation. By the end of the Soviet Union, Gorky Film Studio had produced more than 1,000 films...

. Runtime - 69 min.

Cinematography by Vitaly Grishin. Music by Vadim Gamaleya, lyrics by Evgeny Agranovich

Evgeny Agranovich

Evgeny Danilovich Agranovich was a Russian poet and bard.He was an alumnus of the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute...

. Artists - Lyudmila Bezsmertnova, Aleksander Vagichev. Editing by Yanina Bogolepova. Costumes by M. Tomashevskaya.

Plot summary

Fourth form boy Tolik Ryizhkov (Evaldas Mikaliunas) is a naughty child and fibber. Once he received a box of magic

Magic (fantasy)

Magic in fiction is the endowing of fictional characters or objects with magical powers.Such magic often serves as a plot device, the source of magical artifacts and their quests...

 matches while hiding behind the iron door of a transformer

Transformer

A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another through inductively coupled conductors—the transformer's coils. A varying current in the first or primary winding creates a varying magnetic flux in the transformer's core and thus a varying magnetic field...

 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 a 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
  Alisa Freindlich
  Alisa Brunovna Freindlich is a Soviet and Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR.-Biography:Alisa Freindlich was born into the family of Bruno Freindlich, a prominent actor and People's Artist of the USSR. She is of German and Russian ancestry. Her father and paternal relatives were ethnic...
  
   as Tolik's mother
• Oleg Tabakov
  Oleg Tabakov
  Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov is a Soviet and Russian actor and the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre.-Theatre career:...
  
   as Tolik's father
• Saveli Kramarov as Guitarist Zaytsev/Pigeon
• Yuri Uspensky as Robot Balbes
• Vladimir Savin
• Gerasim Voronkov
• Vyacheslav Tsyupa as Chicha

Supporting cast

• Vladimir Brezhnev
  Vladimir Brezhnev
  Vladimir Brezhnev was an ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC CSKA Moscow. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1965. He was born and died in Moscow....
  
  , Valeri Fomenkov
  Valeri Fomenkov
  Valeri Fomenkov is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC Spartak Moscow. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1995.-External links:*...
  
  , Svetlana Galkina,
• Tatyana Grishina, Anatoli Ivanov, Eduard Ivanov
  Eduard Ivanov
  Eduard Georgievich Ivanov is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC CSKA Moscow. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1963....
  
  ,
• Dmitri Kitayev, Boris Majorov, Yevgeni Majorov,
• Tatyana Mikhajlova, Vladimir Popkov, Nikolai Sologubov
  Nikolai Sologubov
  Nikolai Mikhailovich Sologubov was an ice hockey defenceman in the Soviet Union.-German-Soviet War:Sologubov took part in the German-Soviet War. Serving in the naval infantry he was wounded to leg in a battle near Shlisselburg in 1943. After a month and a half rehabilitation at a hospital he...
  
  ,
• Svetlana Starikova, Georgi Svetlani,
• A. Gorizontov, V. Kalinkin, V. Kazachkov, P. Kravchenko

Trivia

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