A Captain at Fifteen
About A Captain at Fifteen
After Captain Hull and the whalers vanish, fifteen-year-old Dick Sand has to sail the brig Pilgrim and the Weldon family toward South America. Cook Negoro, a former slave trader, steers them to Angola, where slave traders seize the party. Hercules escapes, disguises himself as a mganga, and Dick sets out to free the captives. Vasily Zhuravlyov directed the Jules Verne adaptation.
Cast & crew
More about A Captain at Fifteen
Georgiy Grebner adapted Verne's Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen, Yuly Fogelman photographed it, and Nikita Bogoslovsky composed the score. Wikidata lists 83 minutes and the year 1945. Vsevolod Larionov plays Dick Sand and Mikhail Astangov plays Negoro.
Themes
Look
Yuly Fogelman photographed the Soyuzdetfilm adventure.
Music
Nikita Bogoslovsky is the composer on Wikidata.
Notes
- Yelena Izmaylova plays Mrs. Weldon and Weyland Rodd plays Hercules.
- Aleksandr Khvylya plays Captain Hull.
- Osip Abdulov plays Jose Antonio Alvarez.
- The English Wikipedia's lead spells Negoro's job "cocago." The plot section calls him the ship's cook.
Scenes
- The whalers' boat disappears, and Dick Sand is left to command the Pilgrim.
- Negoro brings the brig to the Angola coast, where slave traders take the passengers.
Influenced by
- Jules Verne's Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1945. Пятнадцатилетний капитан.webm)
