Adventures in a City that does not Exist
Adventures in a City that does not Exist () is a 1974 Soviet children's musical film, directorial debut of Leonid Nechayev. Plot. Pioneer Slava Kurochkin dreams of space. He actively studies physics and astronomy, but at the same time he does not read fiction at all. By coincidence, he finds himself in a fairytale town, where the heroes of the most famous books live: "The Snow Queen", "Timur and His Squad", "The White Solitary Sails", "Les Misérables", "Treasure Island" and so on. But, alas, in the city live not only positive characters  - treacherous commerce adviser from the play "The Snow Queen" (by Evgeny Schwartz) decides to use Slavin's ignorance of books in order to deceive him and with the help of other antagonists to subjugate readers worldwide. The protagonists come to help the boy, and together with friends Slava manages to defeat the adviser and his henchmen. When Slava returns to the real world, the first thing he does is to go to the library.