Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.
Cast
Patsy Kensit
Mytyl
Todd Lookinland
Tyltyl
Elizabeth Taylor
Queen of Light/Mother/Witch/Maternal Love
Jane Fonda
The Night
Cicely Tyson
Tylette
Ava Gardner
Luxury
Margarita Terekhova
Milk
Georgiy Vitsin
Sugar
Oleg Popov
Clown
Nadezhda Pavlova
Blue Bird
Will Geer
Grandfather
Mona Washbourne
Grandmother
Robert Morley
Father Time
Harry Andrews
Oak
George Cole
Tylo
Richard Pearson
Bread
Valentina Ganibalova
Water
Yevgeni Shcherbakov
Fire
Leonid Nevedomsky
Father
Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova
Pleasure of eating
Sergei Filippov
Pleasure of not-understanding
Vladimir Kazarinov
Pleasure of doing nothing
Grigoriy Shpigel
Pleasure of being rich
Igor Dmitriev
Pleasure to being beautiful
Lyudmila Ksenofontova
Pleasure of knowing nothing
Yury Shepelev
Pleasure to drink
Evgeniya Karetnikova
Unknown
Grant Bardsley
children of the future
Monique Potter
children of the future
Anne Blackman
children of the future
Russell Lewis
children of the Future
Steven Warner
children of the future
James Coco
Tylo the dog
Pheona McLellan
sick girl
Oskar Lind
Unknown
Vladimir Lyudevig
Unknown
Sergei Remmekh
Unknown
Crew
George Cukor
Director
Aleksei Kapler
Writer
Hugh Whitemore
Screenplay
Alfred Hayes
Screenplay
Stanford C. Allen
Editor
Tatyana Shapiro
Editor
Freddie Young
Director of Photography
Jonas Gricius
Director of Photography
Edward Lewis
Executive Producer
Harry N. Blum
Producer
Robert H. Greenberg
Producer
Paul Maslansky
Producer
Paul B. Radin
Producer
Lee Savin
Producer
Valeri Yurkevich
Production Design
Maude Spector
Casting
Marina Azizyan
Costume Design
Arthur Bruckel
Hairstylist
Sydney Guilaroff
Hairstylist
Giancarlo Novelli
Hairstylist
Vasili Goryunov
Makeup Artist
Irwin Kostal
Music
Kenneth Wannberg
Music Editor
Tony Harrison
Lyricist
Robert Rietti
Dialect Coach
Brian Wildsmith
Conceptual Illustrator, Graphic Designer
Maurice Maeterlinck
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