Adventures of Captain Vrungel

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Adventures of Captain Vrungel
From left to right: Captain Vrungel, Fux, Lom onboard (Po)beda
Directed by	David Cherkassky
Written by	Andrey Nekrasov (original novel), Efim Chepovetski and I. Vorobyov (screenplay)
Music by	State Symphony Orchestra uf UkSSR conducted by N. Basov
Distributed by	Kievnauchfilm
Release date(s)	1981
Running time	10 min (1-3), 28 min (4-6), 10 min (7-9), 10 min (10-13); 58 min total
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian
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Adventures of Captain Vrungel (Russian: Приключения капитана Врунгеля, translit. Priklyucheniya kapitana Vrungelya) is a 1981 Soviet musical adventure animation film by David Cherkassky, Kievnauchfilm, loosely based on the novel with the same name by Andrey Nekrasov. Cartoon production was divided into 13 series - 1-3 filmed in 1976, 4-6 in 1977, 7-9 in 1978, 10-13 in 1979.

The book by Nekrasov was first published in the Pioneer magazine in 1937 (shortened, in a form of a comics). A full text publication was issued in 1939. The novel is a parody on the popular sailor tales of the 1930s and on stereotypes of foreigners and foreign countries, then prevalent in the Soviet Union.

Awards: Yerevan all-union film festival, Czechoslovakia international TV film festival

Songs and music were by the soloists' ensemble of the State Symphony Orchestra of the UkSSR, conducted by N. Basov

1 Plot summary
2 Voice cast
3 Trivia
4 External links
- 4.1 See also

[edit] Plot summary

An important exhibit is stolen from the Royal Museum of Arts. Fux, its watchman and a gambler, was seduced by a mafia boss, also Chief of the Yacht Club, to steal the statue of Venus. The time of the theft was linked to an international regatta so that Fux could remove the stolen goods" out of the country.

The Soviet naval school teacher and former sea captain Vrungel, receives a telegram asking him to participate in the regatta. He and his pupil Lom decide to set sail for the starting port, although by one of the many freak accidents that occur during the adventure, their ship's name is changed from "Pobeda" to "beda," (which, when translated, is a change from "Victory" to "Tragedy"). Throughout almost the entire journey, Vrungel and Lom have no idea about the hidden purpose of the regatta.

At that point in time for Fux everything is going smoothly and according to plan. All newspapers have written extensively about the "crime of the century". The Regatta is in danger of cancellation.

When Vrungel's Beda arrives, they find out that they need three crew members to participate in the regatta. Lom quickly finds Fux, who is desperate in his attempts to get o, to the Black Cuttlefish yacht as arranged with mafia.

Agent 00X is chasing the Venus, just like the mafiosi Bandito and Gangsterito, who are looking for Fux to take the Venus away from him.

[edit] Voice cast

Zinovi Gerdt as Captain Christopher Bonifatievich Vrungel
Yevgeni Paperny as Yacht club chairman / Mate Lom / Chief
Georgi Kishko as Sailor Fux
Eduard Nazarov as Captain of "Black Cuttlefish"
Grigori Shpigel as Agent 00X
Semyon Farada as Juliko Bandito
A. Burmistrov as De La Voro Gangsterito

[edit] Trivia

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Vrungel is parody of a Wrangel surname, where the first part made from a word "vrun", Russian for liar. Following the release of this film, Vrungel became a colloquial name in Russia, a kind of Baron Münchhausen. But as Nekrasov himself explained Vrungel's prototype was his mate Vronsky, who loved to tell tall stories from his life. His surname was suited for the protagonist so well that initially the book was named Adventures of Captain Vronsky, but Nekrasov later reconsidered the name because of his desire not to hurt his friend's feelings.
Agent 00X and his storyline is a pun over the western Agent 007.
Pobeda (stress on the second syllable) is Russian for Victory, Beda(stress on second syllable) is Russian for Trouble.
As Nekrasov explained, Lom's prototype was a naval school cadet Ivan Mann. In Deutsch his surname means man(Mann), and in French - «L'Homme» (reads as Lom) [1]
Fux was hiding Venus sculpture inside a double bass case