The Blue Bird ( Sinyaya ptitsa )

The Blue Bird (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Sinyaya ptitsa
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
96 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1976 and produced in:
Soviet Union ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
George Cukor

Written By:
Alfred Hayes
Aleksei Kapler

Actors:
Elizabeth Taylor ..... Queen of Light / Mother / Witch / Maternal Love
Jane Fonda ..... The Night
Ava Gardner ..... Luxury
Cicely Tyson ..... Tylette, The Cat
Robert Morley ..... Father Time
Harry Andrews ..... The Oak
Todd Lookinland ..... Tyltyl
Patsy Kensit ..... Mytyl
Will Geer ..... Grandfather
Mona Washbourne ..... Grandmother
George Cole ..... Tylo, The Dog
Richard Pearson ..... The Bread
Nadezhda Pavlova ..... The Blue Bird
Georgiy Vitsin ..... The Sugar
Margarita Terekhova ..... The Milk

Synopsis:

The first official co-production between the United States and the Soviet Union, The Blue Bird was the third screen adaptation of the children's story by Maurice Maeterlinck about a pair of children, Tyltyl (Todd Lookinland) and Mytyl (Patsy Kensit), who leave home to search for the Blue Bird of Happiness. After spending some time wandering through a fantasy world and encountering The Night (Jane Fonda), The Cat (Cicely Tyson), Luxury (Ava Gardner), Father Time (Robert Morley), and The Oak (Harry Andrews), they meet The Queen of Light (Elizabeth Taylor) and discover that true happiness can be found right at home, with your family. As the box-office failure of the first two versions of this story proves, putting this sort of children's fantasy on film is tricky business, and despite a top-notch cast of American and Soviet talent and the directorial expertise of veteran filmmaker George Cukor, The Blue Bird had a notoriously difficult production, with the American and Russian crews not always understanding each other's working methods, the Soviet camera crew not knowing how to light African-American actress Cicely Tyson, and Jane Fonda often trying to engage the Russian crew members in political discussions.

A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. On their journey, they are accompanied by the humanized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, Bread, and other entities.

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