The Blue Bird

The Blue Bird

95 mins | Drama, Adventure, Family, Fantasy | April 5, 1976

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. On their journey, they are accompanied by the humanized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, Bread, and other entities.

The Blue Bird

95 mins | Drama, Adventure, Family, Fantasy | April 5, 1976

The Blue Bird
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. On their journey, they are accompanied by the humanized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, Bread, and other entities.
IMDb rating 5.4
Producers 20th Century Fox, Lenfilm, Sovinfilm, Edward Lewis Productions
Original title The Blue Bird
Directors George Cukor
Writers Maurice Maeterlinck, Aleksei Kapler, Alfred Hayes, Hugh Whitemore

Cast

Elizabeth Taylor

as Queen of Light / Mother / Witch / Maternal Love

Jane Fonda

as The Night

Ava Gardner

as Luxury

Cicely Tyson

as Tylette

Robert Morley

as Father Time

Harry Andrews

as The Oak

Todd Lookinland

as Tyltyl

Patsy Kensit

as Mytyl

Oleg Popov

as Clown

Georgiy Vitsin

as Sugar

Leonid Nevedomsky

as Father

Will Geer

as Grandfather

Mona Washbourne

as Grandmother

George Cole

as Tylo

Richard Pearson

as Bread

Nadezhda Pavlova

as Blue Bird

Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova

as The Pleasure of Eating

Nikolai Ozerov

as Bread

Igor Dmitriev

as Pleasure to Being Beautiful

Sergei Filippov

as Pleasure of Not-Understanding