To Kill a Dragon (1988)

Original title

Убить дракона

Directed by

Mark Zakharov

Genre

drama film, fantasy film

Country

Soviet Union, Germany

Runtime

1h 56m

Rated

0+

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 61 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A dragon rules a town, and a knight comes to challenge him. The story examines how people live under tyranny and what it takes to break free.

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What happens

To Kill a Dragon (Russian: Убить дракона, romanized: Ubit drakona) is a 1988 Soviet-German parable fantasy film based on the play of Evgeny Schwartz Dragon (1942–1944), directed by Mark Zakharov (marking his final film until 2002). The film was a joint production of Soviet Union and West Germany film studio Mosfilm (through Sovinfilm), Bavaria Film and ZDF. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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