Title: Urfin and His Wooden Soldiers
Original Title: Urfin Dzhyus i ego derevyannye soldaty
Year: 2017
Info
- Country: Russia
- Length: 85 Minutes (1 hour 25 min)
- Genre: Animation Adventure Family
- Distributor: European Dreams Factory
Plot
Wicked Urfin arrives to Oz to rule this magical land. His goal is to become the king of Emerald City thanks to his army of wooden soldiers, and wants to change its name to Urfinville. An evil plan that needs to be stopped by young Dorothy. The girl with magic shoes arrives unwillingly to Oz and will find along the way with the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion. They will all join in order to defeat Urfin, and Dorothy will also have the help of her inseparable dog Toto. But it will not be simple... to overthrow Urfin, they will have to find out his real identity first.
Russian animation directors Fyodor Dmitriev, Darina Shmidt and Vladimir Toropchin get together to take this story to the big screen, based on the novel by Aleksandr Volkov, creator of an alternate stories saga for 'The Wizard of Oz' in his home Russia.
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Trivia
An alternate Oz
The film is based upon the novel 'Urfin Jus and his wooden soldiers', second novel published by Soviet author Aleksandr Volkov in 1963 in the 'Magic Land' saga. He translated the first tale taking some liberties and later kept on creating stories based on the book by L. Frank Baum.
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