Fantastic Journey to Oz
| Fantastic Journey to OZ | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Vladimir Toropchin Fyodor Dmitriev Darina Schmidt |
| Screenplay by | Aleksandr Boyarsky |
| Based on | Urfin Jus and His Wooden Soldiers by Alexander Volkov |
| Produced by | Sergei Selyanov Anton Zlatopolskiy Aleksandr Boyarsky |
| Starring | Konstantin Khabensky Dmitri Dyuzhev Sergey Shnurov |
| Edited by | Sergei Glezin |
| Music by | Mikhail Chertischev |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Russia-1 |
Release date |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
| Budget | ₽345 million[1] |
| Box office | $5.9 million[2] |
Fantastic Journey to OZ (Russian: Урфин Джюс и его деревянные солдаты, romanized: Urfin Jus i ego derevyannye soldaty, transl. Urfin Jus and His Wooden Soldiers) is a 2017 Russian animated film based on the novel Urfin Jus and his Wooden Soldiers by Alexander Volkov.[3]
The film was directed by Vladimir Toropchin, Fyodor Dmitriev and Darina Schmidt. It is the first animated film from Melnitsa Animation Studio made using computer animation.[4]
The premiere took place on 20 April 2017.[5][6]
A sequel, Fantastic Return to Oz, was released on 24 October 2019.
Plot
[edit] | This article's plot summary needs to be improved. (August 2025) |
Long ago, a young girl named Milena meets a boy named Urfin Jus, who offers him a trinket to give it to him, but Urfin then turns down the offer and leaves.
Years later, Urfin finds his wooden puppet, along with his bear rug, animated with magic powder that came from purple magic weeds. Urfin, realizing that he has magic powers, builds wooden soldiers as the puppet suggests. Urfin and the soldiers then arrive at the land of the Munchkins, where he announces his usurpment of the land and his arrival to the Emerald City. Meanwhile, a young girl named Ellie[a] with her dog Toto are teleported to the land of the Munchkins with a pair of silver slippers, where she is greeted by the Munchkins, who celebrate her. She and Toto walk into the yellow brick road as they embark on a journey to the Emerald City, when they meet Milena, who gives the trinket to Ellie to give it to Urfin. En route, they are abducted by an ogre, who takes them to his hut. There, the ogre imprisons the two, along with a Cowardly Lion, in a cage. The three find themselves in a dark cave after escaping from their cage.
Meanwhile, Ruf Bilan informs the scarecrow that he wants to become the master of Urfin. He and Urfin then make a clone of the scarecrow. Meanwhile, as Ellie, Toto, and the Cowardly Lion explore the cave, the lion shares a story to the team of how her grandmother and the team got chased by fangthers before they jump off a cliff. The Tin Woodman arrives at the Emerald City, in who he meets the imposter scarecrow. The Tin Woodman is confined into a jail cell, and a sprinkler goes off, incapacitating him. A crow arrives to revive the Tin Woodman by giving him his oil can, and he and the real Scarecrow escapes.
The imposter scarecrow delivers the slippers to Urfin. Urfin imprisons Ellie, and unleashes a giant robot to attack the Emerald City and its citizens. Ellie shows the trinket to Urfin, which Milena offered him long ago. Ellie defeats the robot by throwing her slippers to it, banishing it to an unidentified location. The citizens celebrate Ellie on saving the Emerald City, and she manages to return home.
Cast
[edit]Russian Dub
[edit]- Konstantin Khabensky – Urfin Jus
- Ekaterina Gorokhovskaya – Ellie
- Sergey Shnurov – General Lan Pirot
- Dmitri Dyuzhev – Topotun the Bear
- Andrey Lyovin – Totoshka
- Yuliya Rudina – Eot Ling the Clown
- Sergey Dyachkov – Scarecrow
- Valery Solovyov – Tin Woodman
- Valery Kukhareshin – The Cowardly Lion
- Aleksandr Boyarsky – Ogre
- Dmitry Bykovsky-Romashov – Sabretooth Tiger
- Mikhail Chernyak – crow Kaggi-Karr
- Oleg Kulikovich – Ruf Bilan
English Dub
[edit]- Marc Thompson – Urfin Jus
- Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld - Ellie (as Dorothy)
- Tyler Bunch – General Lan Pirot, Ogre (credited as H.D. Quinn)
- Erica Schroeder - Totoshka, Grandma
- Haven Paschall - Eot Ling the Clown
- Billy Bob Thompson – Scarecrow
- Tom Wayland – Tin Woodman
- Mike Pollock – The Cowardly Lion, Ruf Bilan
- Kate Bristol - Crown
Accolade
[edit]| Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marbella International Film Festival | 9 July 2018 | Animation | Vladimir Toropchin | Nominated | [7] |
Sequels
[edit]Fantastic Return to Oz: a 2019 Russian computer animated film.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Named Dorothy in the English dub.
References
[edit]- ^ "Урфин Джюс и его деревянные солдаты". ekinobilet.fond-kino.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 27 August 2025.
- ^ "Fantastic Journey to Oz". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ "Урфин Джюс и его деревянные солдаты Россия, 2017". Russia-1. Archived from the original on 6 January 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
- ^ Lyuba Egorova (19 April 2017). "20 апреля в прокате стартует "Урфин Джюс и его деревянные солдаты"". Metro International. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
- ^ Mikhail Alterkop. "Это только начало: Урфин Джюс с деревянными солдатами штурмует кинотеатры". Vesti. Archived from the original on 21 August 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
- ^ "Российский мультфильм "Урфин Джюс" покажут в странах Южной Азии". RIA Novosti. 23 March 2017. Archived from the original on 17 October 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
- ^ MIFF (9 July 2018). "Fantastic Journey to Oz | Marbella Film Festival". www.marbellafilmfestival.com. Archived from the original on 30 August 2023. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
External links
[edit]- 2017 films
- Melnitsa Animation Studio animated films
- Animated films based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Russian 3D films
- 2017 3D films
- Russian children's films
- Russian animated fantasy films
- 2017 computer-animated films
- Russian animated feature films
- Animated adventure films
- 2017 adventure comedy films
- 2017 fantasy comedy films
- Russian adventure films
- 2017 Russian-language films
- Russian animated comedy films