It was the first large-budget feature in the Soviet Union to use fantasy elements, as opposed to the realistic style long favored politically.

Once home, to see if they are worthy of a peasant, the old farmer tells the future wives to farm the land around the hut and himself goes off with his sons to mow fields.

As a punishment, she was to live at the bottom of a lake for three years; the due date was almost over, but because the two women burned her toad skin, she would now be fetched by the dragon's sister, an old witch.

The two older sons – horrified by their brides' behavior – throw them and their possessions off the farm, and the two weeping women return to their original town.

At the bottom of this fountain, behind an oak fence and a castle that weighs a hundred quintal, lies a miracle sword of fine steel.

On his journey, he meets a blacksmith who tells him that the key is in a golden egg inside a duck sitting in a glass chest.

In a third strike, the witch splits the earth to prevent the warrior from progressing, but Ivan finds a narrow path over which he tries to overcome the deep-roaring river.

Arriving in the middle of the transition, the evil old woman brings him to collapse and the youth falls into the abyss under the sound of her loud laughter.

The fire and water-spouting dragon stretches out menacingly, but unexpectedly he succeeds in a surprise strike against the monster, whereby the first head is knocked off.