Fantastic Journey to Oz
Fantastic Journey to OZ (Russian: Урфин Джюс и его деревянные солдаты, romanized: Urfin Jus i ego derevyannye soldaty, transl. Urfin Jus and His Wooden Soldiers) is a Russian full-length computer-animated film based on the novel Urfin Jus and his Wooden Soldiers by Alexander Volkov.[1]
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Directed by | Vladimir Toropchin Feodor Dmitriev Darina Schmidt |
Produced by | Sergei Selyanov Anton Zlatopolskiy Aleksander Boyarskiy |
Screenplay by | Aleksander Boyarskiy Darina Schimdt |
Based on | Urfin Jus and His Wooden Soldiers by Alexander Volkov |
Starring | Konstantin Khabensky Ekaterina Gorokhovskaya Sergey Shnurov |
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Distributed by | Russia-1 |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
Country | Russia |
Language | Russian |
The film was directed by Vladimir Toropchin, Fedor Dmitriev and Darina Schmidt. It is the first animated film from Melnitsa Animation Studio made using computer animation.[2]
Plot
The envious and power-hungry Urfin Jus wants to become the ruler of Magic Land. He brings the wooden soldiers to life with a magic powder and goes with them to conquer the Emerald City. He is already preparing to celebrate the victory, but in the Magic Land there is also a little girl named Ellie. She wants to go home, but first she needs to help her friends Strasheela, the Iron Woodman and the Cowardly Lion to defeat Urfin Jus and his army.
Cast
- Konstantin Khabensky – Urfin Jus
- Ekaterina Gorokhovskaya – Ellie
- Sergey Shnurov – General Lan Pirot
- Dmitri Dyuzhev – Topotun the Bear
- Andrey Leovin – Totoshka
- Evgeny Stychkin – Eot Ling the Clown
- Sergey Dyachkov – Strasheela
- Valery Soloviev – Iron Woodman
- Valery Kukhareshin – The Cowardly Lion
- Alexander Boyarsky – Ogre
- Dmitry Bykovsky-Romashov – Sabretooth Tiger
- Michael Chernyak – crow Kaggi-Karr
- Oleg Kulikovich – Ruf Bilan
English voice cast
- Marc Thompson - Urfin Jus, Tiger 1
- Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld - Dorothy
- Eddy Lee - Tim
- Tom Wayland - BFF, Ogre, Tin Man, Tiger 2
- H.D. Quinn - Bear, Wooden General
- Erica Schroeder - Toto, Book
- Haven Paschall - Clown
- Mike Pollock - Cowardly Lion, Book, Ruf
- Billy Bob Thompson - Scarecrow
- Ryan Andes - Carraci Leader
- Brittany Pressley - Ramina, Crow
- Laurie Hymes - Squirrel
References
- "Урфин Джюс и его деревянные солдаты Россия, 2017". Russia-1.
- Lyuba Egorova. "20 апреля в прокате стартует "Урфин Джюс и его деревянные солдаты"". Metro International.
- Mikhail Alterkop. "Это только начало: Урфин Джюс с деревянными солдатами штурмует кинотеатры". Vesti.
- "Российский мультфильм "Урфин Джюс" покажут в странах Южной Азии". RIA Novosti.