In Search of Captain Grant
A water-damaged note in a bottle launches a risky expedition across oceans and continents in this Bulgarian-Russian adventure series.
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About the series
What it’s about
Lord and Lady Glenarvan find a bottle in the ocean containing a letter from Captain Grant, who survived a shipwreck with two sailors. The letter is damaged, revealing only the latitude of the disaster, not the longitude. Determined to help, the Glenarvans mount a search expedition, taking along the captain's children, Mary and Robert. Their route leads through the Atlantic islands, the mountains and plains of New Zealand and Australia, and across the Pacific, where many dangers await.
What hooks you
Stanislav Govorukhin directs this series, with a cast that includes Nikolai Yeryomenko as Lord Glenarvan and Lembit Ulfsak as the scholar Jacques Paganel. Filming took place in Bulgaria, Crimea, and the Black Sea, using the three-masted schooner Kodor as the Duncan. The production also incorporates an overture by Isaac Dunaevsky from the 1936 film 'The Children of Captain Grant'.
Who it’s for
It suits viewers who enjoy classic sea adventures and stories of determined expeditions across varied landscapes, and who appreciate adaptations of literary works with a sense of discovery and peril.
- Countries
- Bulgaria, Soviet Union
- Year
- 1985
- Genre
- Adventure
- Episode length
- 1h 5min
- Age rating
- 12+
- Status
- Off air
- World premiere
- May 13, 1986
Ratings
MOVIE․ONE · 993 votesCreative team
All 10-
01
Nikolay Eryomenko
Lord Glenarvan · Lord Edward Glenarvan
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02
Nikolai Yeryomenko Jr.
Lord Glenarvan
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03
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Major MacNabbs
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04
Lembit Ulfsak
Jacques Paganel
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05
Vladimir Smirnov
Jules Verne
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06
Tamara Akulova
Lady Helen Glenarvan
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07
Oleg Stefan
Captain John Mangles
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08
Ruslan Kurashov
Robert Grant
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09
Galina Strutinskaya
Mary Grant
Trivia
All facts 7
- In Australia, Paganel and Robert ride horses and talk about the exhausting heat in winter, while in the same shot a horse snorted and steam came out of its mouth.
- When the travelers in New Zealand climbed a volcano, they should have quickly suffocated in the poisonous volcanic smoke.
- The film was shot on location in the landscapes of Bulgaria, Crimea, the waters of the Black Sea, and aboard the sailing ship "Tovarishch."
- The sample of the military uniform worn by Major MacNabbs was introduced in Scottish troops after 1881, i.e. considerably later than the events depicted in the film.
- The Patagonia storyline was filmed in the vicinity of the Bulgarian town of Belogradchik.
- A three-masted Bermuda schooner, the Kodor, was used as the "Duncan" during the filming of the movie.
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1985
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1985
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1985