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Fantastic Journey to OZ
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Vladimir Toropchin Fyodor Dmitriev Darina Schmidt
Screenplay by	Aleksandr Boyarsky
Based on	Urfin Jus and His Wooden Soldiers by Alexander Volkov
Produced by	Sergei Selyanov Anton Zlatopolskiy Aleksandr Boyarsky
Starring	Konstantin Khabensky Dmitri Dyuzhev Sergey Shnurov
Edited by	Sergei Glezin
Music by	Mikhail Chertischev
Production companies	Melnitsa Animation Studio CTB
Distributed by	Russia-1
Release date	20 April 2017 (2017-04-20)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Budget	₽345 million
Box office	$5.9 million

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.

A sequel, Fantastic Return to Oz, was released on 24 October 2019.

Plot

Long ago, a young girl named Milena meets a boy named Urfin Jus, who offers him a trinket to give it to him, but Urfin then turns down the offer and storms off.

Years later, Urfin finds his wooden puppet, along with his bear rug, animated with magic powder that came from purple magic weeds. Urfin realizes that he has magic powers, and he builds wooden soldiers as the puppet suggests. Urfin and the soldiers then arrive at the land of the Munchkins, where he announces his usurpment of the land and his arrival to the Emerald City.

Meanwhile, a young girl named Ellie with her dog Toto are teleported to the land of the Munchkins with a pair of silver slippers, where she is greeted by the Munchkins, who celebrate her. She and Toto walk into the yellow brick road as they embark on a journey to the Emerald City, when they meet Milena, who gives the trinket to Ellie to give it to Urfin. En route, they are abducted by an ogre, who takes them to a hut. There, the ogre imprisons the two, along with the Cowardly Lion, in a cage underneath a cave. The three escape their cage, and, while exploring the cave, the lion shares to the team of how her grandmother and the team got chased by fangthers before they jump off a cliff.

Meanwhile, Urfin and his army reach the Emerald City, and Ruf Bilan informs the scarecrow that he wants to become the master of Urfin. A crow alerts Urfin of the Tin Woodman's arrival to the Emerald City. They then make a clone of the scarecrow. The Tin Woodman reaches the Emerald City, meeting the scarecrow clone. The Tin Woodman is then imprisoned by the clown puppet, one of Urfin's henchmen. Ellie reaches the Emerald City, and sneaks into the real Scarecrow's prison cell to reconcile with him, and shares about their friendship. The Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow escape prison with the help from the crow.

The imposter scarecrow delivers the slippers to Urfin. Urfin imprisons Ellie, and summons a giant robot to wreak havoc across the Emerald City. Ellie shows the trinket to Urfin, which Milena offered him long ago. Ellie defeats the robot by throwing her slippers to it, banishing it to an unidentified location. The citizens celebrate Ellie on saving the Emerald City, and she manages to return home.

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

Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipient(s)	Result	Ref(s)
Marbella International Film Festival	9 July 2018	Animation	Vladimir Toropchin	Nominated

Sequels

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

External links

• Fantastic Journey to Oz at IMDb
• Official website