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Overview
Release Date:
5 April 1976 (USA) moreTagline:
A cavalcade of magic. A carnival of fun. The Blue Bird is magic for everyone.Plot:
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... more | add synopsisAwards:
1 nomination moreUser Comments:
A beautiful movie moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| 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 | |
| Georgi Vitsin | ... | The Sugar | |
| Margarita Terekhova | ... | The Milk |
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Germany:95 min | USA:99 minLanguage:
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2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
MonoCertification:
West Germany:6 | France:U | Australia:G | Canada:G (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Quebec) | Finland:K-8 | Iceland:L | Sweden:Btl | UK:U | USA:GMOVIEmeter: 
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Both Katharine Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine dropped out of the production before shooting began. moreFAQ
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I don't agree with the author of the previous comment about this film. The film has to be understood in the context of the time when it was made-at the height of the Cold War. It is one of very few examples of the US-USSR cooperation, especially, in the movie industry. I was very young when I saw it for the first time, on Soviet TV. Right after the signing of the nuclear arms reduction treaty between the US and the then-Soviet Union. The soundtrack of the movie is beautiful; and some of the best Soviet movie actors are cast in it, to say nothing about Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Fonda. Yes, it's not the Lord of the Rings, by all stretch of imagination. It's rather a children's story, a fairy tale, without computer animation and Oscars for it, but with some good old-fashioned ACTING. By the way, I'd love to purchase the movie and would appreciate any hints regarding to who carries it on DVD.