"Adapted from four different Russian folk-tales, this early Soviet fantasy film tells the story of Emelya the Fool, who, fishing one day, catches a talking pike who pleads for his life and in return grants Emelya wishes for a life spared."
Pyotr Savin
as Yemelya
Georgi Millyar
as Tsar Gorokh
Vladimir Lepko
as Cook
Andrey Fayt
as Mukhamed-aga
Ye. Terentyeva
as Tsarevna Nesmeyana
Lev Potyomkin
as General (as L. Potyomkin)
Aleksandr Zhukov
as Herald
Tatyana Strukova
as Nurse (as T. Strukova)
Lidiya Ryumina
as Nurse
Mariya Kravchunovskaya
as Mama Emeli
Oleg Leonidov
Writer
Aleksandr Rou
Director
Vsevolod Kochetov
Aleksei Utkin
Production Design
Kseniya Blinova
Editor
Ivan Gorchilin
Director of Photography