A palace steward conspires with bandits to kidnap an infant czar's son and an orphan adopted by the czar, replacing the prince with the steward's son. Two decades later the true prince and his foster brother are slaves in a quarry, the changeling grew up as a prince, and his mother has been elevated to the highest position in the state for "saving" the prince, but losing her own child. Then the brothers escape, the changeling prince departs to fight an immortal wizard and vanishes, and the brothers have to deal with the wizard. Which includes stealing a bird-woman from a Mid-Eastern khan and figuring where the wizard's death is.
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After the Rain, on Thursday Cast
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Character |
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Valentina Talyzina
She was 50, now 89 years old
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as Varvara-klyuchnitsa |
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Oleg Tabakov
He was 50, 82 years old when he died
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as Kashchej the Immortal |
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Tatyana Pelttser
She was 81, 88 years old when she died
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as Baba-Yaga |
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Oleg Anofriev
He was 55, 87 years old when he died
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as Tsar |
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Semyon Farada
He was 51, 75 years old when he died
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as Babadur |
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Marina Zudina
She was 19, now 58 years old
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Yuri Medvedev
He was 65, 71 years old when he died
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Georgi Millyar
He was 81, 89 years old when he died
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Mariya Barabanova
She was 73, 81 years old when she died
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as Nurse |
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Marina Yakovleva
She was 26, now 65 years old
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as Zhar-ptitsa |
After the Rain, on Thursday Crew
