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After the Rain, on Thursday (1986)

After the Rain, on Thursday (1986)

Romance Adventure Fantasy Family
Release Date: 1986, May 12
Directors: Mikhail Yuzovskiy
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Gorky Film Studios
Cast: Vladimir Episkoposyan, Marina Zudina, Igor Surovtsev, Yuriy Chernov, Valentina Talyzina, Sergey Nikolaev, Vasily Kortukov, Vladislav Toldykov, Vladimir Fyodorov, Oleg Tabakov, Marina Yakovleva, Yuri Medvedev

Overview:

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.