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THE AMPHIBIAN MAN
1961, 95 min., color.
Adventure film.
Director: Gennadi Kazansky, Vladimir Chebotaryov
A small seacoast town is full of rumors about a ‘sea
devil.’ A wealthy merchant, Zurita, who trades in pearls,
does not believe in it until he runs into the ‘devil’ under
dramatic circumstances. After that he is eager to get
this ‘devil’ and use him for his own purposes. The ‘devil’
is an ordinary, or, to be precise, extraordinary young
man. When he was a small child a doctor saved his
life by transplanting shark’s gills into the boy’s body. As
a result, the boy, Ichtiander, can live both on land and in
water. Ichtiander falls in love with Guttiere, the girl Zurita is going to marry, and becomes Zurita’s sworn enemy
and prisoner…
In the annual contest by the magazine “Soviet Screen” the film, the actors A. Vertinskaya and V. Korenev, the composer A. Petrov and the camera-man E. Rozovsky were voted into the top 5 of their categories (1963).
The “Silver Spaceship”, the 2nd Prize at the 1st Int’l
Science Fiction Film Festival in Trieste (1963).
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Films for young audience/family films, fairy tales