The Secret of the Iron Door (, translit. Tayna zheleznoy dveri) is a 1970 Soviet children's film directed by Mikhail Yuzovsky after a screenplay by Aleksandr Rejzhevsky loosely based on a story Wizard Walked Through the City by Yuri Tomin. It was produced by Gorky Film Studio.
Plot summary
Fourth form boy Tolik Ryizhkov (Evaldas Mikaliunas) is a naughty child and fibber. Once he received a box of magic matches while hiding behind the iron door of a transformer booth. Every match, when broken, can act like a magic wand but just once.
A boy with his two friends and a dog find themselves on an island of an evil wizard (Sergei Yevsyunin) of their age, who found the equal box of matches and used them to create his own little egocentric world.
The young wizard put Tolik's friends in prison and is trying to make Tolik as evil as himself. But Tolik stays faithful to his friendship and rescues his friends without the help of any magic.
Cast
Evaldas Mikaliunas as Tolik (boy) Andrei Kharybin as Mishka (boy) Dmitri Yuzovsky as Mitka (boy) Sergei Yevsyunin as Wizard (boy) Alisa Freindlich as Tolik's mother Oleg Tabakov as Tolik's father Saveli Kramarov as guitar player Zaytsev / Pigeon Yuri Uspensky as Robot Balbes Alexander Ivanov as traffic policeman Gerasim Voronkov as violinist Leonid Vyacheslav Tsyupa as Chicha
Supporting cast
Vladimir Brezhnev, Valeri Fomenkov, Svetlana Galkina
Tatyana Grishina, Anatoli Ivanov, Eduard Ivanov
Dmitri Kitayev, Boris Mayorov, Yevgeni Mayorov
Tatyana Mikhajlova, Vladimir Popkov, Nikolai Sologubov
Svetlana Starikova, Georgi Svetlani
Crew
Cinematography by Vitaly Grishin. Music by Vadim Gamaleya, lyrics by Evgeny Agranovich. Artists by Lyudmila Bezsmertnova, Aleksander Vagichev. Editing by Yanina Bogolepova. Costumes by M. Tomashevskaya.
Trivia
After transforming back from pigeon into Zaytsev Saveli Kramarov appears nude in the end of the film.