Finest, the Brave Falcon (1975): Cast & Plot

** Finist, Vyacheslav Voskresensky, defends the borders with courage and honesty, earning both the respect of his people and the envy of darker powers. When a menacing sorcerer known as Kartaus-Red Mustache plots to snuff out the light of Russia, he dispatches Kastryuk the werewolf, a cunning and dangerous emissary, to pry apart the hero’s defenses and sow chaos where there once was order. Kastryuk’s deceitful ruse draws Finist into a dungeon where the magic of Kartaus takes hold, and the mighty bogatyr is transformed into a smoldering monster, a grim shadow of his former self. The land trembles as the duel between fate and enchantment tilts toward catastrophe.