The animated film is based on the Russian epic story about the bogatyr Ilya of Murom and the pilgrims.
The film uses the music of Reinhold Glière from the symphony "Ilya Muromets" edited by Thomas Korganov.
The first of the dilogy: in three years was filmed the sequel "Ilya of Murom and the Nightingale the Robber" (1978).
In Russia in the mid-1990s, the animated film was produced on VHS by Studio PRO Video and Soyuz Video.
The image of the enemy who came to the Russian land in this animated film was visually decided to be deliberately devoid of anthropomorphism: it is represented by a silhouette image with fixation of "stretched" movement, forming the image of hurricane, zoomorphic elements.