Treasure Island (1938 film)

Treasure Island
Directed by	Vladimir Vaynshtok
Written by	Robert Louis Stevenson (novel) Oleg Leonidov Vladimir Vaynshtok
Starring	Osip Abdulov Mikhail Klimov Nikolai Cherkasov
Music by	Nikita Bogoslovsky
Cinematography	Mikhail Kirillov
Edited by	M. Shitova
Production company	Gorky Film Studio
Release dates	5 January 1938
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Treasure Island (Russian: Остров сокровищ, translit. Ostrov sokrovishch 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 Stalinist ideology. The book's character of Jack Hawkins is transformed into a young woman named Jenny, and the characters are attempting to find the treasure in order to fund an anti-British rebellion.^[1] An English language version was directed by David Bradley.

Cast

• Klavdiya Pugachova as Jenny Hawkins
• Osip Abdulov as John Silver
• Mikhail Klimov as Trelawney
• Nikolai Cherkasov as Billy Bonns
• Aleksandr Bykov as Captain Smollett
• Iona Bij-Brodsky as George Mari
• Pyotr Galadzhev as Ben Gunn
• Aleksandr Levshin
• Nikolai Michurin
• Mikhail Tsaryov
• Vladimir Yershov
• L. Meshcherin
• V. Yakushenko

References

1. Dobrenko & Balina p.243

Bibliography

• Evgeny Dobrenko & Marina Balina. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

External links

• Treasure Island at the Internet Movie Database