Isaak Dunayevsky - Overture “The Children of Captain Grant“ (1936)

Isaak Osipovich Dunayevsky (Russian: Исаак Осипович Дунаевский also transliterated as Dunaevski or Dunaevsky; 30 January [O.S. 18 January] 1900 – 25 July 1955) was a Soviet film composer and conductor of the 1930s and 1940s, who composed music for operetta and film comedies, frequently working with the film director Grigori Aleksandrov. Please support my channel: Overture The Children of Captain Grant Дети капитана Гранта State Symphony Orchestra of USSR or Grand State Symphony Orchestra of Public Radio and Central Television conducted by Vladimir Kozhukhar 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.
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