Prisoners of the Yamagiri Maru (cartoon)

The end of the 21st century. Alisa Selezneva and Pashka Geraskin undergo school practice under the guidance of Aran Singh, director of an ocean farm on the island of Yap, where mysterious events have recently begun: species of marine creatures unknown to science appear, dolphins and whales belonging to the farm disappear.

Pashka finds out that the Japanese transport Yamagiri Maru sank jewels from Japanese captured Burma that sank near the island during World War II. He is going to secretly take an underwater vehicle - a “bathyscaphe”, to go down inside the ship and find treasures there, but Alice persuades him to sail with her.

In the sunken cruiser, Alice and Pashka find mutants (similar to ordinary octopuses ) that hatched over the past hundred years under the influence of oil spilled during the crash. The bathyscaphe crashes the tank in the vehicle, which crushes the manipulator, and thus Alice and Pashka are captured. Mutants have signs of intelligence and counteract their attempts to cut off the manipulator and free themselves. The captives manage to get out, but the octopuses rush in pursuit. Aran Singh announces a rescue operation and flies to the scene where he kills the “king” of the mutants and rescues Alice and Pashka.

• Tatyana Aksyuta - Alisa Selezneva
• Tatyana Kuryanova - Pashka Geraskin
• Vsevolod Larionov - Aran Singh

• Script writer: Kir Bulychev .
• Director: Alexey Soloviev.
• Production designer: D. Tsykalov.
• Operator: E. Turevich.
• Composer: Alexander Zhurbin .
• Lyrics: S. Golubeva.
• Sound engineer: V. Azarovsky.
• Animation artists: P. Petrov, V. Shulenin, A. Grishko, B. Savin.
• Artists: Yu. Aralova, A. Rodionov, A. Luke, I. Vorobyov.
• The dolls were made by: G. Bogachev, M. Bogatskaya, A. Degtyarev, L. Doronina, A. Gnedinsky, G. Kruglova, B. Karavaev, N. Larskaya, A. Kuznetsov, A. Mulukina, V. Petrov, N. Panteleeva , V. Sletkov, E. Pokrovskaya
• Editor: L. Kopteva.
• Editors: L. Stefanova, V. Guseva.
• Director: E. Bobrovskaya.

The film crew is shown on the credits of the cartoon.

The authors of the magazine "Fantasy World" spoke negatively about the cartoon, calling it the most unsuccessful of the adaptations of "Alice Selezneva":

For example, the puppet cartoon “Prisoners of Yamagiri-maru” is now forgotten by everyone. And, I must admit, it is deservedly forgotten: the quality of animation in it is rather weak.

- "World of fiction" ^[1]

• The only film adaptation in which Pashka Geraskin appears, one of the key characters in books about Alice ^[1] .
• In the film, the cause of the appearance of mutants is oil; In the book this was facilitated by the deep-sea burial of nuclear waste (and in the book there were not octopuses, but small fish with sharp teeth).
• Composer Alexander Zhurbin used musical themes in the film written for A. Solovyov’s previous cartoons: “Space Aliens” and “Island of Captains”.
• It is unclear how the whole convoy of ships managed to get into the lagoon of the atoll.
• Singh uses an equalizer to control the video.
• At the end of the 21st century, the Soviet Union still exists, which Pashka proudly says in a greeting to Singh. This is despite the fact that in none of Bulychev’s books about Alice the modern name of the country where the heroes live is ever found, it only talks about the entire planet Earth (although other countries are rarely mentioned: for example, in the novel “City without memory” an alien Iria is married to a Pole and lives in one of the Polish cities).

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• Prisoners of Yamagiri Maru at animator.ru
• Creative Association "SCREEN"