Scarlet Sails (film)

Infobox_Film
name = Scarlet Sails


caption = Poster for original USSR release
director = Alexandr Ptushko
producer =
writer = Alexandr Yurovsky Semyon Nagorny
starring = Anastasiya Vertinskaya Vasily Lanovoy Lena Cheremshanova Sasha Lupenko Ivan Pereverzev
music = Igor Morozov
cinematography = Gennady Tsekavy Viktor Yakushev
editing = I. Moronov
distributor = RUSCICO
released = USSR: 1961
USA: 2004 (DVD)
runtime = 88 min.
country = Soviet Union
language = Russian
budget =
imdb_id = 0054618|

"Scarlet Sails" ( _ru. "Алые паруса"; "Alye Parusa") is a 1961 Soviet film produced by Mosfilm and directed by Alexandr Ptushko. It is based on Alexander Grin's 1923 adventure novel of the same name and stars Vasily Lanovoy and Anastasiya VertinskayaDVD "Scarlet Sails", ©2003 RUSCICO] imdb title|id=0054618|title=Alye Parusa] . The story is a romantic fantasy [New York Times review [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/152141/Scarlet-Sails/overview] ] and is described as a "fairy tale" though it contains no overtly supernatural elements.

Plot

The setting is a small fishing village. The former seaman Longren (Ivan Pereverzev) raises his daughter Assol (Lena Cheremshanova/Anastasiya Vertinskaya) [The heroine's name is changed to "Isolde" in the English-language dubbing on the DVD.] alone after losing his beloved wife, making a meager living by selling the toy boats he carves from wood. As a child, Assol encounters an old man (Nikolay Volkov) who claims to be a wizard and promises the girl that one day a prince will come on a ship with scarlet sails to carry her away. The villagers scoff but Assol believes her dream will come true one day.

Arthur Grey (Sasha Lupenko/Vasily Lanovoy) is a nobleman's son who breaks away from his cruel father (Pavel Massalsky) to pursue a life at sea, and eventually becomes the captain of a merchant vessel. Having set to port at Assol's village, he spies the young maiden sleeping in the forest and falls in love. After inquiring in the village he learns of Assol's dream and sets about to make it come true.

Principal Cast

Miscellaneous

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Locations used in the filming include Koktebel and Yalta in Crimea (Ukraine), Baku in Azerbaijan, and Pitsunda in Abkhazia (Georgia).

Grey's ship, "Secret", was actually the training ship "Alfa" from the Rostov Naval School. It was outfitted with 2,500 meters of scarlet parachute silk procured to satisfy Ptushko's demand for authenticity"Interview with Oleg Anofriev" (on RUSCICO DVD)] .

External links

* [http://www.lib.ru/RUSSLIT/GRIN/parusa.txt Text of the novel "Алые Паруса"] at Maksim Moshkow's Library
* [http://home.wanadoo.nl/scarletsails/ English translation of the novel]

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