Adventures in a City that does not Exist


Adventures in a City that does not Exist is a 1974 Soviet children's musical film, directorial debut of Leonid Nechayev.

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, A White Sail Gleams, 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 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

Antagonists

Production

The film, shot in the studios of Belarusfilm during the year 1974, was Nechaev's first feature and its success allowed the director to make The Adventures of Buratino for the same production company.

Reception

The film was described as "a sort of experimental production featuring the heroes of the most popular children's books."

Literature

Kostyukovich, Maria. — Minsk: Madisont, 2020.