Children of Captain Grant

[Neil McGowan]

Here's a nice chunk of soviet-era movie music - Dunaevsky's film music to the soviet film "The Children Of Captain Grant"

[guest2]

Thank you. Inspiring music. And all those sailor-suits are quite Edwardian. Do you know where the entire film can be found?

[Neil McGowan]

Thank you. Inspiring music. And all those sailor-suits are quite Edwardian. Do you know where the entire film can be found?

The complete 1936 film is here :)

In Russian, of course - but it's fairly faithful to the Jules Verne original. It was mostly made for children.  It's rather charming that in the heat of the Red Terror, MosFilm found time to make a children's film by a French author about seafaring adventures off the coast of Scotland :)

[guest54]

Thank you for that link! Another lengthy "your-tube" (551,715,352 bytes). But the film is not very expertly put together is it. I have not read the book, but Verne has always been a favourite among Socialists. In an attempt to find out why, I looked him up:

But I see no obvious explanation there . . .

[Neil McGowan]

Although wishing to portray themselves as honest sons of toil, most of the Russian revolutionaries had only the most passing acquaintance with any kind of manual work.  Most of them were schoolmasters, in fact - Lenin and his wife were both teachers.

The early years of the USSR put a touching faith in the improving nature of culture and learning, and in the myriad unspecified benefits to be gained from technology. I would imagine this put M. Verne's works high up the Leninist Reading List :)