The Wizard of the Emerald City

Jan 1, 1994

1h 3m

★ 3.0

Overview

Young Elli is taken away from her mother and left in a magical land. On her quest to find her way back she meets a scarecrow, a lion and a woodsman.

Genres

Adventure

Family

Fantasy

Production Companies

Experimental Performers Association "Ladya"

Gorky Film Studios

The Wizard of the Emerald City Trailers

Cast

Ellie Smith

Yekaterina Mikhaylovskaya

Scarecrow

Vyacheslav Nevinnyy

Iron Lumberjack

Yevgeni Gerasimov

Cowardly Lion

Vyacheslav Nevinnyy Jr.

James Goodwin (Wizard)

Viktor Pavlov

Оgre

Valeriy Nosik

Bastinda / Gingema

Natalya Varley

Ellie's Mother / Stella

Olga Kabo

Guardian

Boris Shcherbakov

Sergei Varchuk

Vladimir Antonik

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

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