Fantastic Journey to Oz

2017 Russian film

20 April 2017 (2017-04-20)

Running time

75 minutesCountryRussiaLanguageRussian

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

The premiere took place on 20 April 2017.^[3]^[4]

Plot

The envious and power-hungry Urfin Jus wants to become the ruler of Magic Land. He brings the wooden soldiers to life with a magic powder and goes with them to conquer the Emerald City. He is already preparing to celebrate the victory, but in the Magic Land there is also a little girl named Ellie. She wants to go home, but first she needs to help her friends Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion to defeat Urfin Jus and his army.

Cast

Russian Dub

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

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

Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipient(s)	Result	Ref(s)
Marbella International Film Festival	9 July 2018	Animation	Vladimir Toropchin	Nominated	^[5]

Sequels

Fantastic Return to Oz: a 2019 Russian computer animated film.

References

^ "Урфин Джюс и его деревянные солдаты Россия, 2017". Russia-1.
^ Lyuba Egorova (19 April 2017). "20 апреля в прокате стартует "Урфин Джюс и его деревянные солдаты"". Metro International.
^ Mikhail Alterkop. "Это только начало: Урфин Джюс с деревянными солдатами штурмует кинотеатры". Vesti.
^ "Российский мультфильм "Урфин Джюс" покажут в странах Южной Азии". RIA Novosti. 23 March 2017.
^ MIFF (9 July 2018). "Fantastic Journey to Oz | Marbella Film Festival". www.marbellafilmfestival.com. Retrieved 7 April 2021.