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Thanks a lot, but that's definitely not it. I don't remember much, but I do know it wasn't anything in the horror or supernatural genre, rather a slice of life story - either drama or comedy, probably something romantic.
You're welcome! Check it out, maybe it's "Andrei..."
The villain with a heart / soul outside of the body is a pretty common folklore motive - especially in slavic folklore, where it's mostly associated with Kashchei, but not exclusively. Therefore, it's bound to pop up in lots of fairy tale movies from the (ex) Eastern bloc. The character of Kashchei (mostly with this motive) appears in 11 (!) Soviet children's movies, but mostly, even though the motive of the heart or soul outside the body (often in an egg) is present, his demise is somewhat parodied or varied, as in "После дождичка, в четверг" ("After the Rain, on Thursday"), where he himself is tricked into crashing the egg, or "Там, на неведомых дорожках" ("Along unknown paths"), where a young boy finds his "death", but he is only threatened and not killed. Lots of possiblilties here...
Sorry, for some reason I overread that you already excluded "Kashchey the Immortal"...
Could it possibly be this one:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0231141/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
"Андрей и злой чародей", which would be "Andrey and the evil wizard" in English. I don't know if it ever was released internationally, but it does have Millyar (who also played Kashchei) in a role somewhat fitting your description - an evil wizard living under ground and never coming up: He has three minions who do the work for him, but they turn good when they meet the hero. His weakness, though, is not his heart, but exposure to light - that's how the hero (a young man) destroys him.
There's, of course, the "original" Kashchei which has the part with the heart that is destroyed in the end - and it has also a final battle with the main hero (again, a young man, not a boy) where the villain is on a horse - but this one is from 1944 and in black and white:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167227/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
"Кащей бессмертный" aka "Kashchey the Immortal".
A film with a more or less similar plot to "Captain Sindbad" (going by the synopsis) is "Финист - ясный сокол" / "Finist, the bright falcon" (1976) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242459/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2), it also has a main villain, but not a very memorable one, and I can't quite remember anything about his demise.
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