Around the World on a Flying Windmill
Around the World on a Flying Windmill is a spectacular CGI / live-action family film with unique visuals. The main characters Gustav and Professor Easter Christmassen are well known and beloved by local audiences from educational and award winning TV series for family ‘Gustav’s encyclopedia’ broadcast since 1999 on National Public Television Channel in Lithuania. This show has been introducing children to the world and its wonders for 20 years already.
When the insatiable discoverer Gustav catches the travel bug, he decides to set out on a trip around the world to search for his uncle who had disappeared while flying his plane. Little does he know what adventures await him, and what incredible characters he is destined to meet. Have you ever wondered what Baron Munchausen is up to these days? Where Captain Nemo is knocking about and how Robinson Crusoe is doing? This educational story about adventures, beauty and wonder is your chance to meet these and other well-loved characters and to travel with them, to visit the mysterious forest where Tiny Ben has his secret radio station, to dive to the depths of the sea, where mermaids provide entertainment in the restaurant of the Titanic, and to travel on planes, windmills, boats and trains through northern seas and America’s Wild West; across the world, and even to space!
DIRECTORS Vaidas Lekavičius, Augustinas Gricius
SCRIPT Vaidas Lekavičius, Augustinas Gricius, Audrius Rakauskas
CAMERA OPERATOR Vytautas Vyšniauskas
PRODUCTION DESIGNER Andrius Zakšauskas
MUSIC Sigitas Mickis
EDITING Vaidas Lekavičius
PRODUCERS Žilvinas Naujokas, Vaidas Lekavičius, Vitalijus Žukas
CAST Audrius Rakauskas, Andrius Žebrauskas, Arūnas Sakalauskas, Remigijus Sabulis, Karina Krysko, Aldona Vilutytė, Marijonas Mikutavičius, Jurgita Drabatienė, Kristupas Kavaliauskas, Zigmas Jablonskis, Estella Trukhova and others.