Fantastic Journey to Oz

Fantastic Journey to OZ (Russian: Урфин Джюс и его деревянные солдаты, romanized: Urfin Jus i ego derevyannye soldaty, transl. Urfin Jus and His Wooden Soldiers) is a 2017 Russian animated film based on the novel Urfin Jus and his Wooden Soldiers by Alexander Volkov.

The film was directed by Vladimir Toropchin, Fyodor Dmitriev and Darina Schmidt. It is the first animated film from Melnitsa Animation Studio made using computer animation.

The premiere took place on 20 April 2017.

Plot

The envious and power-hungry Urfin Jus wants to become the ruler of Magic Land. He brings the wooden soldiers to life with a magic powder and goes with them to conquer the Emerald City. He is already preparing to celebrate the victory, but in the Magic Land there is also a little girl named Ellie. She wants to go home, but first she needs to help her friends Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion to defeat Urfin Jus and his army.

Cast

Russian Dub

• Konstantin Khabensky – Urfin Jus
• Ekaterina Gorokhovskaya – Ellie
• Sergey Shnurov – General Lan Pirot
• Dmitri Dyuzhev – Topotun the Bear
• Andrey Lyovin – Totoshka
• Yuliya Rudina – Eot Ling the Clown
• Sergey Dyachkov – Scarecrow
• Valery Solovyov – Tin Woodman
• Valery Kukhareshin – The Cowardly Lion
• Aleksandr Boyarsky – Ogre
• Dmitry Bykovsky-Romashov – Sabretooth Tiger
• Mikhail Chernyak – crow Kaggi-Karr
• Oleg Kulikovich – Ruf Bilan

English Dub

• Marc Thompson – Urfin Jus
• Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld - Ellie (as Dorothy)
• Tyler Bunch – General Lan Pirot, Ogre (credited as H.D. Quinn)
• Erica Schroeder - Totoshka, Grandma
• Haven Paschall - Eot Ling the Clown
• Billy Bob Thompson – Scarecrow
• Tom Wayland – Tin Woodman
• Mike Pollock – The Cowardly Lion, Ruf Bilan
• Kate Bristol - Crown

Accolade

Sequels

Fantastic Return to Oz: a 2019 Russian computer animated film.

References

External links

• Fantastic Journey to Oz at IMDb
• Official website