Prisoners Of Yamagiri-Maru
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''Prisoners of Yamagiri-Maru'' (russian: Узники «Ямагири-мару», Uzniki «Yamagiri-maru») is a 1988 Soviet stop-motion animated
science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...
short film directed by Aleksei Solovyov based on the short story of the same name by
Kir Bulychov Kir Bulychev (russian: Кир Булычёв ''Kir Bulychyov 18 October 1934 – 5 September 2003) is a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko (И́горь Все́володович Може́йко), a Soviet Russian science fiction writer, c ...
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Plot

The end of the 21st century. Alisa Seleznyova and Pashka Geraskin undergo school practice under the leadership of Aran Singh, the director of the ocean farm on the island of Yap where mysterious events have recently begun to occur: species of marine creatures unknown to science suddenly appear while dolphins and whales belonging to the farm are vanishing. Pashka learns that the Japanese transport "Yamagiri-Maru" sunk near the island during World War II, carrying jewels from Burma, captured by the Japanese. He is going to stealthily take a submersible apparatus — a "bathyscaphe", to go down inside the ship and find treasures there, but Alice persuades him to swim with her. In the sunken cruiser, Alice and Pashka find mutants (similar to ordinary octopuses) that went extinct during the last hundred years under because of oil spillage during the crash. The bathyscaphe brings down the tank that was in the transport, which crushes the manipulator, and thus Alisa and Pashka are captured. Mutants have signs of intellect and counteract their attempts to cut off the manipulator and free themselves. Aran Singh announces a rescue operation and flies to the scene where he kills the "king" of mutants and rescues Alice and Pashka.


Cast

*Tatyana Aksyuta — Alisa Seleznyova *Tatiana Kuryanova — Pasha Geraskin *
Vsevolod Larionov Vsevolod Dmitriyevich Larionov (russian: Всеволод Дмитриевич Ларионов; September 11, 1928 in Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union – October 8, 2000Studio Ekran films Marionette films 1980s stop-motion animated films Soviet animated films Soviet science fiction films Films based on works by Kir Bulychov {{1950s-USSR-film-stub