Eagle Island

Name: Eagle Island
Director: Mikhail Izrailev
Genre: Adventure
Released: 1961
Duration: 1 h 13 min
Cast: Gennadi Yudin, Svetlana Druzhinina, Rostislav Plyatt, Ion Sandri Scurea, Ecaterina Malcoci

1961 Adventure 73 minutes Directed by Mikhail Izrailev

About Eagle Island

Archaeologists on Eagle Island find remnants of slave shackles. A local legend says Achilles sometimes appears on a rock and shows sailors a safe channel in bad weather. The expedition leaves empty-handed, the leader stays, and he comes upon a state founded by runaway slaves.

Cast & crew

More about Eagle Island

The catalog names Mikhail Izrailev as director. Wikidata lists no director, credits Vitaly Kalashnikov as cinematographer and Eduard Lazarev as composer, and dates the film October 15, 1961.

Themes

slave shackles
an Achilles legend
a hidden state of runaways
Eagle Island
Achilles
archaeologists
runaway slaves

Look

Vitaly Kalashnikov is the cinematographer on Wikidata.

Music

Eduard Lazarev is the composer on Wikidata.

Notes

Gennadi Yudin, Svetlana Druzhinina, and Rostislav Plyatt lead the catalog cast.
The catalog also bills Ion Sandri Scurea, Ecaterina Malcoci, and Vasile Konstantinov.
Moldova-Film is the production company on Wikidata.

Also available

Wikimedia Commons (1961. Орлиный остров.webm)