---
title: 'The Children of Captain Grant (1936)'
type: 'film'
director: 'David Gutman'
released: '1936-09-15'
runtime_minutes: 88
genres:
  - 'Adventure'
  - 'Family'
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-children-of-captain-grant-1936'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027516/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Children of Captain Grant (1936)

1936 · 88 min · Adventure, Family · Soviet Union

Original title: Дети капитана Гранта

## Synopsis

The Children of Captain Grant is a 1936 Soviet adventure film directed by Vladimir Vaynshtok and David Gutman and starring Nikolai Cherkasov, Ivan Chuvelyov and Yuri Yuryev. It is an adaptation of the 1868 novel In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne. The film was popular on its release, and was followed in 1941 by another Verne adaptation Mysterious Island. In the 1860s, two Scottish children go on a global search for their missing father, the sailor Captain Grant.

## Credits

- **Director:** [David Gutman](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-gutman), [Vladimir Vajnshtok](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-vajnshtok)
- **Screenplay:** [Oleg Leonidov](https://cinepixo.com/people/oleg-leonidov)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Isaak Dunayevsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/isaak-dunayevsky)
- **Director of Photography:** [Arkadi Koltsaty](https://cinepixo.com/people/arkadi-koltsaty)

## Cast

- [Mariya Strelkova](https://cinepixo.com/people/mariya-strelkova) as Lady Glenarvan
- [Ivan Chuvelev](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivan-chuvelev) as Tom Ayrton
- [David Gutman](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-gutman) as Major MacNabs
- [Mikhail Romanov](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikhail-romanov) as John Mangles
- [Nikolay Ivanovich Michurin](https://cinepixo.com/people/nikolay-ivanovich-michurin) as хозяин отеля
- [Nikolai Adelung](https://cinepixo.com/people/nikolai-adelung) as Thalcave
- [Yury Uryev](https://cinepixo.com/people/yury-uryev) as Captain Grant
- [Nikolay Cherkasov](https://cinepixo.com/people/nikolay-cherkasov) as Jacques Paganel
- [Iona By-Brodsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/iona-by-brodsky) as консул
- [Nikolay Vitovtov](https://cinepixo.com/people/nikolay-vitovtov) as Lord Glenarvan
- [Yakov Segel](https://cinepixo.com/people/yakov-segel) as Robert Grant

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