The Children of Captain Grant (film)

The Children of Captain Grant
Directed byVladimir Vaynshtok
David Gutman
Written byJules Verne (novel)
Oleg Leonidov
Produced byL. Sokolovsky
M. Zarzhiykaya
StarringNikolai Cherkasov
Ivan Chuvelyov
Yuri Yuryev
Mariya Strelkova
CinematographyArkadi Koltsaty
Aleksandr Ptushko
Edited byTatyana Likhachyova
Music byIsaak Dunayevsky
Production
company
Release date
  • 15 September 1936 (1936-09-15)
Running time
88 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

The Children of Captain Grant (Russian: Дети капитана Гранта, romanizedDeti kapitana Granta) is a 1936 Soviet adventure film directed by Vladimir Vaynshtok and David Gutman and starring Nikolai Cherkasov, Ivan Chuvelyov and Yuri Yuryev. It is an adaptation of the 1868 novel In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne. The film was popular on its release, and was followed in 1941 by another Verne adaptation Mysterious Island.[1] In the 1860s, two Scottish children go on a global search for their missing father, the sailor Captain Grant.

  1. ^ Dobrenko & Balina p.242-243