After the Rain, on Thursday

CinematographyKonstantin Harutyunov
Vladimir SapozhnikovEdited bySvetlana DesnitskayaMusic byGennady Gladkov78 minutesCountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussian

After the Rain, on Thursday (Russian: После дождичка в четверг, romanized: Posle dozhdichka v chetverg) is a 1985 Soviet musical children's fantasy film directed by Mikhail Yuzovskiy.^[1][2]

Plot

Once, after the rain on Thursday, the firstborn is delivered to King Avdey. The same day a boy is born to the housekeeper of Varvara, and a newborn is found in the cabbage. All three are called Ivan - and Avdey has ordered to raise the boys together. However, the housekeeper does her own way: she puts her Ivan into the imperial cradle, and gives the other two away for hard labor. Twenty years pass, and before Ivan the task arises to free himself, to defeat Koschei the Immortal and to release the beautiful princess Milolika...

Cast

• Vladislav Toldykov as Ivan Tsarevich
• Alexey Voytyuk as Ivan the Foundling
• Gennady Frolov as Ivan, Varvara's son
• Oleg Tabakov as Koschei the Immortal
• Valentina Talyzina as Varvara
• Marina Zudina as Milolika
• Oleg Anofriyev as King Avdey
• Marina Yakovleva as Firebird
• Tatyana Pelttser as grandmother-watchman on the swamp (Baba Yaga)
• Yury Medvedev as Yegory
• Semyon Farada as Shah Babadur
• Vladimir Fyodorov as hairy one
• Vasily Kortukov as royal jester
• Maria Barabanova as first nurse
• Natalya Krachkovskaya as second nurse
• Vladimir Bishoposian as servant of Babadur
• Georgy Millyar as courtier of Babadur
• Sergey Nikolayev as shooter
• Yuri Chernov as herald
• Viktor Mamaev as villain with a scar
• Yuliy Kim as swindler
• Mikislav Yuzovsky as guardsman in penal servitude

References

External links

• After the Rain, on Thursday at IMDb