''Tale about Boy-Kibalchish'' (russian: Сказка о Мальчише-Кибальчише) is a 1964 Soviet
children’s war film directed by
Yevgeny Sherstobitov and based on a story “A Tale about a War Secret, about the Boy Nipper-Pipper, and His Word of Honour” by
Arkady Gaidar
Arkady Petrovich Gaidar (russian: link=no, Арка́дий Петро́вич Гайда́р, born Golikov, russian: link=no, Го́ликов; – 26 October 1941) was a Russian Soviet writer, whose stories were very popular among Soviet chil ...
.
Plot
The film tells about a boy nicknamed Kibalchish, a person of strong moral values, who fights against the corrupt, manipulative, egoistic, impudent rich men.
Сказка о Мальчише-Кибальчише
/ref>
Cast
* Sergei Ostapenko – Boy-Kibalchish
*Sergei Tikhonov – Boy-Plokhish
*Anatoly Yurchenko – Messenger
*Sergey Martinson
Sergey Alexandrovich Martinson (russian: Серге́й Александрович Мартинсон; – 2 September 1984) was a Russian eccentric comic actor, the master of pantomime, buffoonery and grotesque. He became People's Artist of the ...
– Agent 518
* Leonid Gallis – Main Bourgeois
* Dmitry Kapka – Main General
References
External links
* {{IMDb title, id=1869672
1964 children's films
1964 films
1964 war films
1960s Russian-language films
Soviet war films
Films based on fairy tales