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Mysterious Island

Mysterious Island

19415.81h 15m

Overview

Based on Verne's book The Mysterious Island, five POWs escape from a camp in a balloon during the Civil War and crash-land on an uninhabited island in the Pacific. Trying to settle with their lives they find someone is helping them.

Directed by Eduard Pentslin
Written by Jules Verne, Mikhail Kalinin, Boris Shelontsev
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Top Cast

Aleksey Krasnopolsky

Aleksey Krasnopolsky

Smith

Pavlo Kyiansky

Pavlo Kyiansky

Spilett

A

Andrey Andriyenko-Zemskov

Pencroft

Ivan Kozlov

Ivan Kozlov

Ayrton

Robert Ross

Robert Ross

Neb

Y

Yuri Grammatikati

Herbert

Andrii Sova

Andrii Sova

Jupe

Nikolai Komissarov

Nikolai Komissarov

Cap. Nemo

Themes & Keywords

shipislandbased on novel or bookjules vernerefugeevolcanohot air balloonpirateamerican civil warcaptain nemo

About Mysterious Island

Mysterious Island is a adventure, science fiction film released in 1941 exploring themes of ship, island, based on novel or book, jules verne, refugee, volcano. Directed by Eduard Pentslin, it stars Aleksey Krasnopolsky, Pavlo Kyiansky, Andrey Andriyenko-Zemskov. Based on Verne's book The Mysterious Island, five POWs escape from a camp in a balloon during the Civil War and crash-land on an uninhabited island in the Pacific. Trying to settle with their lives they find someone is helping them.

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