Sergey Zhigunov

Marina Levtova

Nikolai Karachentsov

Dmitriy Pevtsov

Igor Yasulovich

Zhanna Prokhorenko

Volodymyr Talashko

Andrey Leonov

Sergey Bystritskiy

Anatoliy Mambetov

Leonid Gromov

Vladislav Kovalkov

Vilor Kuznetsov

Valentina Mironova

Maksim Dunaevskiy

Vladimir Yarin

Aleksandr Krupnikov

Aleksandr Filatov

Nadezhda Fadeyeva

Yuriy Moroz

Kir Bulychyov

Sofya Konbrandt

Oleg Korytin

Uldis Jānis Veispals

Vasil Budishevsky

Sergey Onipenko

Yuliya Lebedeva

Vladimir Kaplan

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Adventure

Romance

Подземелье ведьм

Filmové studio Barrandov

Gorky Film Studios

Gosfilmfond Russia

Ladya

Československá televize

Czechoslovakia

Soviet Union

A "Planet of No Return" type of yarn--cosmonaut goes to tribal age planet and once his base is overrun by treacherous primitives, is forced to go all Conan on their asses while trying to figure out the planet's central mystery. 

By any reasonable standard, a terrible, terrible film. However, if you belong to the tribe of perverts who spasm in joy from 1980's Italian no-budget Conan, Star Wars, and Mad Max knockoffs, then this 1980's Soviet Conan and Star Wars knockoff will knock your socks off.

While the acting quality and special effects are absolutely identical to those in say _Ator The Fighting Eagle_, or _Star Odyssey_, the differences are two: **a)** the main characters are obviously Slavic, be they earthling or local, while the baddies are darkly stubbled and speak in pseudo-Arabic throaty croaks, and **b)** the film is actually based on a real (and quite good) science fiction book.

Unlike the Italian (or no-budget American) brethren of this film, where the plot is held together with spit and gum, the plot in The Witches Cave actually makes perfect sense and is none too shabby, because it follows the aforementioned science fiction novel.

This is scant relief for those who expect mainstream entertainment from this film (they will not get it), but by a measurement scale of bad B film lovers of the 1980's Italian, or Roger Corman type of cinematic adventure, this is a solid "8 out of 10" flick.

Summary: The Witches Cave is a very good choice for all connoisseurs of cheap 1980's fantasy and sci-fi, with the two added bonuses of the film's exotic component (Soviet), and the plot being an actual functioning such, due to being based on actual book.

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