Adventures in a City that does not Exist
Adventures in a City that does not Exist (Russian: Приключения в городе, которого нет, romanized: Priklucheniya v gorode, kotorogo net) is a 1974 Soviet children's musical film, directorial debut of Leonid Nechayev.[1][2][3]
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Directed by | Leonid Nechayev |
Written by | Sergei Muratov Mark Rosovsky |
Starring | Evgeny Goryachev Valentīns Skulme |
Music by | Sergei Cortez |
Cinematography | Yuri Shalimov |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Plot
Pioneer Slava Kurochkin dreams of space. He actively studies physics and astronomy, but at the same time he does not read fiction at all. By coincidence, he finds himself in a fairytale town, where the heroes of the most famous books live: The Snow Queen, Timur and His Squad, The White Solitary Sails, Les Misérables, Treasure Island and so on.
But, alas, in the city live not only positive characters - treacherous commerce adviser from the play The Snow Queen (by Evgeny Schwartz) decides to use Slavin's ignorance of books in order to deceive him and with the help of other antagonists to subjugate readers worldwide. The protagonists come to help the boy, and together with friends Slava manages to defeat the adviser and his henchmen. When Slava returns to the real world, the first thing he does is to go to the library.
Cast
Protagonists
- Evgeny Goryachev - Slava Kurochkin, reader
- Igor Anisimov - Timur Garaev (from the book Timur and His Squad)
- Vyacheslav Baranov - Gavrosh (voiced by Hagar Vlasov) (from the book Les Misérables)
- Alexander Plyushchev - Petya Bachey (from the book The White Solitary Sails)
- Alexander Pokko - Gavrik (voiced by Nadezhda Podyapolskaya) (from the book The White Solitary Sails)
- Tatiana Prusakova - Pippi Longstocking (from the book Pippi Longstocking)
- Igor Ambrazhevich - Tom Sawyer (from the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
- Igor Kondratovich - Huckleberry Finn (from the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
- Irina Shilkina - Gerd (from the fairy tale of H. C. Andersen The Snow Queen)
- Nikolai Grinko - Don Quixote (voiced by Artem Karapetyan) (from the book "The Clever Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha")
- Mikhail Sachuk - Dimka the Invisible (from the book of the same name by V. Korostylyov and M. Lvovsky)
- Alexander Pyatkov - Mitrofanushka (from the play The Minor)
- Fedor Khramtsov - armorer Prospero (from the book Three Fat Men)
- Galina Linnik - Somova
Antagonists
- Valentīns Skulme - commerce adviser (voiced by Zinoviy Gerdt) (from the play The Snow Queen by Evgeny Schwartz)
- Gediminas Karka - Javer, Police Inspector (from the Les Misérables)
- Valery Nosik - informant "Mustache" (from the book The White Solitary Sails)
- Leonid Kanevsky - Captain Bonaventure (from the book Three Fat Men)
- Ivan Pereverzev - John Silver (from the book Treasure Island)
- Igor Gushchin - "Figure" (from the book Timur and His Squad)
- Leonid Kryuk - tall pirate
- Vadim Aleksandrov - short pirate
- Rostislav Shmyrev - general
- Valentin Bukin - owner of a pirate restaurant
- Stefaniya Stanyuta - Aunt Polly (from the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
References
- "ПРИКЛЮЧЕНИЯ В ГОРОДЕ, КОТОРОГО НЕТ. Х/Ф". Russia-1.
- Vadim Nesterov. "Папа Буратино". gazeta.ru.
- "Леонид Нечаев: "Я выкупил Золотой ключик за 30 рублей"". segodnya.ua.