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Treasure Island is a 1938 Soviet adventure film directed by Vladimir Vaynshtok and starring Osip Abdulov, Mikhail Klimov and Nikolai Cherkasov. It is an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island. The film was one of several British literary classics turned into films in the Soviet Union during the era. A number of changes were made to introduce anti-British elements and to promote leninist-marxist ideology. The book's character of Jim Hawkins is transformed into a young woman named Jenny, and the characters are attempting to find the treasure in order to fund an Irish and anti-British rebellion. An English language version was directed by David Bradley.
Original Release
07/07/1949
Cast
Name | Character |
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Mikhail Klimov | Trelawney |
Osip Abdulov | John Silver |
Nikolay Cherkasov | Billy Bones |
Vladimir Yershov | Commander |
Mikhail Tsaryov | Dr. Livesey |
Anatoliy Bykov | Captain Smollett |
Iona Biy-Brodskiy | George Merry |
V. Yakushenko | Dick |
Nikolai Michurin | Israel Hands |
L. Meshcherin | Anderson |
Directors
David Bradley, Vladimir Vaynshtok
Writers
Vladimir Vaynshtok, Oleg Leonidov, Robert Louis Stevenson
Cast
Name | Character |
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Mikhail Klimov | Trelawney |
Osip Abdulov | John Silver |
Nikolay Cherkasov | Billy Bones |
Vladimir Yershov | Commander |
Mikhail Tsaryov | Dr. Livesey |
Anatoliy Bykov | Captain Smollett |
Iona Biy-Brodskiy | George Merry |
V. Yakushenko | Dick |
Nikolai Michurin | Israel Hands |
L. Meshcherin | Anderson |
Pyotr Galadzhev | Ben Gunn |
Fyodor Ivanov | Pirate |