History Literature / SannikovLand

* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Ordin gets two Onkilon brides and both are called Annu. He decides to call them Annuan and Annuir, short for Annu-annen (Annu the First) and Annu-ngirak (Annu the Second).

* LivingRelic: Sannikov Land is populated by mammoths, cave bears and other Pleistocene animals, as well as the Vampu who are Paleolithic humans.

* ApocalypseHow: On the low end of Class 0. [[spoiler:The eruption (in the novel) or freeze (in the film) will kill everyone and everything in Sannikov Land]].

Земля Санникова ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sannikov_Land Sannikov Land]]) is a 1926 Russian/Soviet ScienceFiction / SpeculativeFiction / ActionAdventure novel by Vladimir Obruchev, and a 1973 film adaptation by Albert Mkrtchyan and Leonid Popov. The story is based on the legends about Sannikov Land, an island in the far north of the Arctic Ocean that is warmed by a volcano and inhabited by a tribe called the Onkilon. It is similar to the works of Creator/JulesVerne or Sir Creator/ArthurConanDoyle.

* TheMole: Annuir spies on the Onkilons after their relationship with the explorers is soured. Ordin warns her not to be too vehement in her defense of him, so that the Onkilons wouldn’t suspect where her loyalties really lie.* NoGuyWantsToBeChased: Inverted with Ordin, who immediately likes Annuir’s determination and pride after she demands to marry him.

* NoGuyWantsToBeChased: Inverted with Ordin, who immediately likes Annuir’s determination and pride after she demands to marry him.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Ordin gets two Onkilon brides and both are called Annu. He decides to call them Annuan and Annuir, short for Annu-annen (Annu the First) and Annu-ngirak (Annu the Second).
* ReverseMole: Annuir spies on the Onkilons after their relationship with the explorers is soured. Ordin warns her not to be too vehement in her defense of him, so that the Onkilons wouldn’t suspect where her loyalties really lie.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Ordin gets two Onkilon brides and both are called Annu. He decides to call them Annuan and Annuir, short for Annu-annen (Annu the First) and Annu-ngirak (Annu the Second).

* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Ordin gets two Onkilon brides and both are called Annu. He decides to call them Annuen and Annuir

** Annuir decides to follow Ordin to Russia.

* NoGuyWantsToBeChased: Inverted with Ordin, who immediately likes Annuir’s determination and pride after she demands to marry him.

** Gorokhov decides to stay with Onkilons, especially since he has fallen in love with Raku. [[spoiler:He changes his mind just in time, so he escapes the flooding, but Raku doesn’t]].

* HeelRealization: After they scare off the Vampu and take some of their possessions for their collection, the explorers realize they have basically committed breaking and entering and robbery, even if it was purely for academic purposes. They decide to leave some of their own things to the Vampu in compensation.

* BittersweetEnding: Heavy on the bitterness. [[spoiler:The Onkilons and the Vampu have probably perished, Kostyakov is dead, Raku is killed, the entire unique ecosystem of Sannikov Land is gone for good, and the photos and tokens of the land are lost forever]]. However, [[spoiler:apart from Kostyakov, the explorers]] make it home alive and well, and [[spoiler:Ordin and Annuir end up together]].

* ApocalypseHow: On the low end of Class 0. The eruption (in the novel) or freeze (in the film) will kill everyone and everything on Sannikov Land.
%%* CataclysmClimax
%%* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Perfilev.
%%* EskimoLand
%%* GentlemanAdventurer
%%* GrimUpNorth
%%* HeroLookingForGroup

%%* LostWorld
%%* NobleSavage: The Onkilon.
%%* PsychoForHire: Ignatiy.
%%* RagtagBunchOfMisfits
%%* SnowMeansDeath
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The scientist and settler Alexander Ilyin (Creator/VladislavDvorzhetsky) persuades goldmine owner Trifon Perfilev to sponsor an expedition to find gold in Sannikov Land. Perfilev agrees, and Ilyin gathers an expedition consisting of himself, officer-adventurer Yevgeny Krestovsky (Creator/OlegDal), Katorga runaway and former doctor Gubin, and Ignatiy, Perfilev's servant, who is told to kill the other adventurers if they do find gold.

The motley crew sets out, and finally reaches Sannikov Land, which is indeed warmed by a volcano. Thanks to this warming, the island is inhabited by the Onkilon, who greet the adventurers. But things do not go as planned. The volcano is cooling down, and when it cools, Sannikov Land will enter a deep freeze, and no adventurer, Onkilon, or living creature of any kind will survive. Only Ilyin will return to the mainland....

The film was a big success, and was seen by 41 million viewers in 1974.

!!This novel and movie provides examples of:
%%* AdventurerArchaeologist

* LivingRelic: In the original novel, Sannikov Land was also populated by Neanderthals and mammoths.

* OhCrap: When they realize the volcano is cooling.

* SceneryPorn: Filmed in the Gulf of Finland and in the Valley of the Geysers on Kamchatka.

The scientist and settler Alexander Ilyin (VladislavDvorzhetsky) persuades goldmine owner Trifon Perfilev to sponsor an expedition to find gold in Sannikov Land. Perfilev agrees, and Ilyin gathers an expedition consisting of himself, officer-adventurer Yevgeny Krestovsky (OlegDal), Katorga runaway and former doctor Gubin, and Ignatiy, Perfilev's servant, who is told to kill the other adventurers if they do find gold.

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* AdventurerArchaeologist

* CataclysmClimax
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Perfilev.
* EskimoLand
* GentlemanAdventurer
* GrimUpNorth
* HeroLookingForGroup

* LostWorld
* NobleSavage: The Onkilon.

* PsychoForHire: Ignatiy.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits

* SnowMeansDeath

* ScienceMarchesOn: There is no Sannikov Land. Doesn't stop the story from being good though.

* TroubledProduction: Mkrtchyan and Popov basically threw the original book from the window (Mkrtchyan basically wrote a completely new script together with a famous director Mark Zakharov), their original choice for the lead (Cretor/VladimirVysotsky) got caught in the Soviet politics at the time and became blacklisted, the directors being inexperienced, they antagonized the filming crew, especially the main trio of Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, Oleg Dahl and Sergey Shakurov, who entered a strike, and while Dvorzhetsky and Dahl were later persuaded to continue filming, Shakurov was later thrown out.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ-hnn1UASQ There is just a flash]]" sung by Oleg Anofriev.

* AdaptationDisplacement

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