Treasure Island (1938 film)

Treasure Island
Directed by	Vladimir Vaynshtok
Written by	Robert Louis Stevenson (novel) Oleg Leonidov Vladimir Vaynshtok
Based on	Treasure Island 1883 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
Starring	Osip Abdulov Mikhail Klimov Nikolai Cherkasov
Cinematography	Mikhail Kirillov
Edited by	M. Shitova
Music by	Nikita Bogoslovsky
Production company	Gorky Film Studio
Release date	5 January 1938 (1938-01-05)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Treasure Island (Russian: Остров сокровищ, romanized: 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 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.^[1] An English language version was directed by David Bradley.

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

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

• Treasure Island at IMDb
• Treasure Island at AllMovie

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