Amphibian Man (film)

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Amphibian Man
Directed by	Vladimir Chebotaryov Gennadi Kazansky
Written by	Alexander Beliaev (novel) Akiba Golburt Aleksei Kapler Aleksandr Ksenofontov
Starring	Vladimir Korenev Anastasiya Vertinskaya
Music by	Andrei Petrov
Cinematography	Eduard Rozovsky
Distributed by	BijouFlix Releasing National Telefilm Associates (NTA) Inc.
Release date(s)	1962
Running time	82 min
Country	USSR
Language	Russian
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Amphibian Man (aka Chelovek-Amfibiya) is a 1962 Soviet Science Fiction Romance film starring Vladimir Korenev and Directed by Vladimir Chebotaryov and Gennadi Kazansky.

It is an almost fable-like story based upon the eponymous novel by Alexander Beliaev. It focuses on a boy named Ichtyandr who was surgically altered to survive under the sea. Unlike traditional science fiction movies of the time the film focuses much more on the concept of love won and lost. It was given the name of Tarzan des Mers before the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs took exception.^[1]

The film was the leader of Soviet distribution in 1962 (65.5 million viewers).

[edit] Cast

Actor	Role
Vladimir Korenev	Ichtyandr Salvator
Anastasiya Vertinskaya	Gutiere Baltazar
Mikhail Kozakov	Pedro Zurita
A. Smiranin	Old Baltazar
Nikolai Simonov	Prof. Salvator
Vladlen Davydov	Olsen, the reporter
A. Antonyan
Anatoli Ivanov
Valeri Kudryashov
Nikolai Kuzmin
Mikhail Medvedev
Yuri Medvedev
A. Nikritina
A. Orlik
A. Shaginyan
Georgi Tusuzov
Aleksandr Zakharov

[edit] References

• Wingrove, David. Science Fiction Film Source Book (Longman Group Limited, 1985)
• Internet Movie Database

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