| The Witches Cave | |
| Director: | Yuri Moroz |
| Producer: | Igor Nosov Vladislav Sverkunov |
| Starring: | Sergey Zhigunov Marina Levtova Dmitry Pevtsov Nikolai Karachentsov Igor Yasulovich Zhanna Prokhorenko |
| Music: | Maksim Dunayevsky |
| Cinematography: | Alexander Filatov Alexander Krupnikov |
| Editing: | Valentina Mironova |
| Studio: | Gorky Film Studio Czechoslovak Television Bratislava Barrandov Studios |
| Runtime: | 81 min |
| Country: | Soviet Union Czechoslovakia |
| Language: | Russian |
The Witches Cave (Russian: Подземелье ведьм) is a 1989 science fantasy film from Gorky Film Studio, USSR and Barrandov Studios, Czechoslovakia.
The script was written by Kir Bulychov based on his own story and directed by Yuri Moroz. The cast featured Sergei Zhigunov as Andrei Bruce, Marina Levtova as Belogurochka, Dmitry Pevtsov as Oktin Khash, and Nikolai Karachentsov as cosmolinguist Jean. The movie had two nominations in the 1991 Nika Awards.[1]
An interstellar expedition is sent to study a strange planet far from Earth. Even though creatures from various Earth time periods appear to inhabit the world (mammoths, pterodactyls, dinosaurs, horses, birds, etc.), the stone-age-level natives also possess swords made of metal.[2]