The Headless Horseman (1973 film)
| The Headless Horseman | |
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| Directed by | Vladimir Vajnshtok |
| Written by | Vladimir Vajnshtok Pavel Finn |
| Starring | Oleg Vidov Ludmila Savelyeva Aarne Üksküla Ivan Ivanovich Petrov |
| Music by | Nikita Bogoslovsky |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Countries | Soviet Union Cuba |
| Language | Russian |
| Box office | 51,7 million tickets sold |
The Headless Horseman (Russian: Всадник без головы, romanized: Vsadnik bez golovy) is a 1973 Soviet-Cuban Red Western film directed by Vladimir Vajnshtok based on the eponymous novel by Thomas Mayne Reid. The film was the first Soviet Western. It was a box office success, 51,7 million tickets were sold and the picture holds the 33rd place in terms of cinema attendance in the Soviet Union.