Incident on a Volcano
About Incident on a Volcano
Andrei Latonin has jumped from planes many times. On a holiday display he freezes and stays in the cockpit. He cannot live the failure down, signs on as a sailor, and means to leave home for good. On the ship he meets a scientific party bound for the crater of an active volcano and goes with them.
Cast & crew
More about Incident on a Volcano
Yevgeni Schneider directed a script by Mikhail Rozenfeld and Osip Brik. Louis Forestier and Mikhail Kirillov photographed; Felix Boguslavsky designed the sets; David Blok wrote the music. Soyuzdetfilm produced the black-and-white picture in 1940. It was released on 22 March 1941. The cinema encyclopedia times it at 66 minutes.
Themes
Making
Soyuzdetfilm, the studio for children’s and youth pictures, put a failed parachute jump and a volcano expedition in one adventure. Forestier shared the photography with Kirillov.
Look
Louis Forestier and Mikhail Kirillov shot the 66-minute black-and-white negative, from the aircraft and the ship through to the crater party.
Music
David Blok composed the score.
Preservation
The 1940 Soyuzdetfilm picture survives in a black-and-white print.
Notes
- Vladimir Shishkin is billed first, with Lidiya Smirnova, Pyotr Aleynikov, Andrey Fayt, Mikhail Troyanovsky, and Ivan Bobrov.
- Mikhail Shveitser, later known as a director, is in the acting list, along with Anatoly Granik and Cheslav Sushkevich.
- Osip Brik, the Formalist critic and Lef editor, shares the script credit with Rozenfeld.
- The Commons copy is filed under the production year, 1940.
Scenes
- On the holiday, Latonin stays in the cockpit while the jump is supposed to happen.
- He takes a sailor’s berth to get away from home.
- The expedition he meets on board is going to an active crater, and he joins it.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1940 Случай в вулкане.webm)
