The Witches Cave

The Witches Cave (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.

Plot summary
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.

Cast

 * Sergey Zhigunov — Andrew Bruce, Inspector (voiced by Vladimir Antonik)
 * Nikolai Karachentsov — Jean Lemot, ethnographer, translator
 * Dmitry Pevtsov — Oktin-Hash, the leader of savages
 * Vyacheslav Kovalkov — Krylov, the astronaut
 * Marina Levtova — Billegurri (Belogurochka) - daughter and heiress of the leader of a friendly tribe
 * Igor Yasulovich — Konrad Zhmuda, ethnographer
 * Andrey Leonov - co-pilot
 * Anatoly Mambetov - Mute
 * Zhanna Prokhorenko - Ingrid Khan, paramedic
 * Willor Kuznetsov - The White Wolf
 * Sergei Bystritsky - Billegurri's brother
 * Volodymyr Talashko - Axel, ethnographer
 * Leonid Filatkin - U-Ush, the last Neanderthal