The Sannikov Land is a Soviet 1973 adventure film

Adventure film

Adventure films are a genre of film.Unlike pure, low-budget action films they often use their action scenes preferably to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way....

 about the fictional Sannikov Land

Sannikov Land

Sannikov Land was a phantom island in the Arctic Ocean. Its supposed existence became something of a myth in 19th-century Russia.Yakov Sannikov and Matvei Gedenschtrom claimed to have seen it during their 1809-1810 cartographic expedition to the New Siberian Islands...

 loosely based on the novel of the same name by Vladimir Obruchev

Vladimir Obruchev

Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev was a Russian and Soviet geologist who specialized in the study of Siberia and Central Asia. He was also one of the first Russian science fiction authors.- Scientific research :...

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Plot summary

The exiled settler Alexander Ilyin persuades the goldmines

Gold mining

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 owner Trifon Perfilyev to sponsor the expedition dedicated to the searches of "Sannikov Land", a legendary warm land behind the Polar circle

Polar circle

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. Hoping that this land could be filled with gold, Perfilyev agrees. Few more daredevils volunteer for the mission. The finally gathered crew consists of Ilyin himself, officer Evgeniy Krestovskiy, Perfilyev's survant Ignatiy, who is given a task of killing every other crew member in case they'll truly find any gold, and Gubin, a Katorga

Katorga

Katorga was a system of penal servitude of the prison farm type in Tsarist Russia...

 runaway and a former doctor.

After a long travel they reach the volcanic land and meet the natives — a tribe of "Onkilon". However they soon find out that the volcano cools down quickly, and the legendary land is about to start to freeze so that every living creature on the island would be killed in process.

Cast

• Vladislav Dvorzhetsky
  Vladislav Dvorzhetsky
  Vladislav Dvorzhetsky was a Soviet film actor. He appeared in eighteen films between 1970 and 1978Dvorzhetsky was born in Omsk. In 1955 he entered the Omsk military medical school. In 1959 he started active service in the Soviet Army at Sakhalin Island as senior feldsher of the regiment...
  
   as Ilyin
• Oleg Dal
  Oleg Dal
  Oleg Ivanovich Dahl was a Soviet actor.He acted in films, from classics of drama to fairy tales and adventures. His most popular works included Zhenya, Zhenechka i 'Katyusha , Khronika pikiruyushchego bombardirovshchika , Staraya, staraya skazka , Na Dne , Korol Lir...
  
   as Evgeniy Krestovskiy
• Yuri Nazarov
  Yuri Nazarov
  Yuriy Nazarov is an Russian film and television actor.He was born Yuri Vladimirovich Nazarov in Novosibirsk, Russia. His father, Nikolai Aldomirovich Nazarov , was an ethnic Chechen Lieutenant of the Red Army, who served in the Eastern Front and the Crimean Offensive in 1944.In 1989, Nazarov was...
  
   as Gubin
• Georgi Vitsin as Ignatiy
• Makhmud Esambayev
  Makhmud Esambayev
  Makhmud Alisultanovich Esambayev was a Chechen actor and dancer. Makhmud was regarded as one the most famous dancers of the Soviet Union.-Biography:...
  
   as Shaman
• Nikolai Gritsenko
• Alyona Chukhraj
• Gevork Chepchyan
• Pyotr Abasheyev
• Tursun Kuralyev
• Yekaterina Sambuyeva
• Nasira Mambetova
• Sergei Polezhayev
• Aleksandr Susnin
• Nikolai Kryukov
• Boris Gryzlov
  Boris Gryzlov
  Boris Vyacheslavovich Gryzlov , is a Russian politician and current Speaker of Russia's State Duma . He is one of the leaders of the largest Russian political party, United Russia...
  
  

Soundtracks

Film featured two highly popular songs, written by Aleksandr Zatsepin

Aleksandr Zatsepin

Aleksander Sergeyevich Zatsepin - a Soviet and Russian composer, famous for his soundtracks to many popular movies, notably comedies by Leonid Gaidai...

 and Leonid Derbenyov

Leonid Derbenyov

Leonid Petrovich Derbenyov a Russian poet and lyricist widely regarded as one of the stalwarts of the 20th century Soviet and Russian pop music.-Biography:...

 and performed by Oleg Anofriyev

Oleg Anofriyev

Oleg Andreyevich Anofriyev is a Soviet and Russian stage and screen actor, voice actor, singer, songwriter, film director, poet. He was born in Gelendzhik, but spent all his life in Moscow and graduated from Moscow Art Theatre in 1954...

. First of them achieved nearly a cult status:

1. "There's just a blink..." ("Est' tol'ko mig")
2. "All has been" ("Vsyo bylo")

External links

• Est tolko mig... (performed by Anatoliy Grabezhov, shanson
  Shanson
  Russian chanson is a neologism for a musical genre covering a range of Russian songs based on the themes of the urban underclass and the criminal underworld. This song style, originally called blatnaya pesnya , has been popular in Eastern Europe ever since its first appearance in the beginning of...
  
   singer, mp3
  MP3
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  , 4196k) in Maksim Moshkow's Music Library