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
- Evgeny Goryachev as Slava Kurochkin, reader
- Igor Anisimov as Timur Garaev
- as Gavroche
- Alexander Plyushchev as Petya Bachey
- Alexander Pokko as Gavrik
- Tatiana Prusakova as Pippi Longstocking
- Igor Ambrazhevich as Tom Sawyer
- Igor Kondratovich as Huckleberry Finn
- Irina Shilkina as Gerda
- Nikolai Grinko as Don Quixote
- Mikhail Sachuk as Dimka the Invisible
- Alexander Pyatkov as Mitrofanushka
- Fedor Khramtsov as armorer Prospero
- Galina Linnik as Somova
Antagonists
- Valentīns Skulme as commerce adviser
- Gediminas Karka as Javer, Police Inspector
- Valery Nosik as informant "Mustache"
- Leonid Kanevsky as Captain Bonaventure
- Ivan Pereverzev as John Silver
- Igor Gushchin as "Figure"
- Leonid Kryuk as tall pirate
- Vadim Aleksandrov as short pirate
- Rostislav Shmyrev as general
- Valentin Bukin as owner of a pirate restaurant
- Stefaniya Stanyuta as Aunt Polly