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makes its home video premiere with this stunning presentation from Synapse Films

Packed with gothic tropes

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Ilya Muromets Boris Karloff Italian filmmakers fired a canonLegendary fantasy filmmaker Aleksandr Ptushkos sweeping, visual F X filled epic is one of his most enchanting achievements: a stunning Cinemascope ballad of heroic medieval knights, ruthless Tugar invaders, wind demons and three headed fire breathing dragons. The film stars Boris Andreyev as the bogatyr (warrior) Ilya, a mythic figure in the Kyivan Rus culture that pre dated both modern Ukraine and Russia (much of the films action is set in Kyiv, and