Sadko (film)

Sadko Russian is a 1952 Russian fantasy film directed by Aleksandr Ptushko. The film is based on an opera by Nikolai RimskyKorsakov, which was based on a Russian bylina epic tale with the same name, and scored with RimskyKorsakovs music from the opera.

Sadko won the Silver Lion award at the Venice Film Festival in 1953, and festival judges included lead actor Sergei Stolyarov in a list of the worlds best actors in the 50year history of film.The film was released in the United States in 1962 in an Englishdubbed and modified form by Roger Cormans Filmgroup under the title The Magic Voyage of Sinbad. It retains the basic plot structure of Sadko but includes several significant changes the total running time is reduced from approximately 85 to 79 minutes most of the deleted footage consists of scenes in which songs are performed, voiceover narration is added, the protagonist Sadko is renamed Sinbad, and characters and places are renamed to disguise the films Russian origin and transform the film into a story about Sindbad the Sailor perhaps most significantly, the city of Novgorod is renamed Copasand. The English dubbing in this version arguably gives the film a slightly campier tone than the original version, in which the dialogue has a more polished and literate tone. The Script Adaptor for this version of the film was a young Francis Ford Coppola. ........

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