Adventures of Mowgli: Raksha (1967) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1967 · 19 mins · Russian

Directed by

Roman Davydov

Starring

Oleg Vidov, Aleksandr Nazarov, Lyudmila Kasatkina, Mariya Vinogradova, Stepan Bubnov, Anatoliy Papanov

In Episode 1, a human infant is found by a wolf pack in the jungle and taken in by the caring mother wolf, Raksha. She protects him from the fearsome tiger Shere Khan, while the pack raises the child as one of their own. As Mowgli grows, the pack’s council must decide whether he may remain among the wolves or be handed over to Shere Khan as prey.