Upon the Magic Roads (2021)
February 18, 2021Release Date
Upon the Magic Roads (2021)
February 18, 2021Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Anton Shagin
Ivan-Durak
Paulina Andreeva
Tsar-devitsa
Ekaterina Baygozina
Devitsa
Yan Tsapnik
sleeping bag
Pavel Derevyanko
Konyok-gorbunok
Oleg Taktarov
general
Vladimir Dikun
Strelets
Lyaysan Utyasheva
Firebird (voice)
Yuriy Dikun
Torgovets
Mikhail Efremov
Tsar
Aleksandr Semchev
Whale (voice)
Pavel Elpashev
Paren
Vitaly Kopnin
herald
Andrey Feskov
Lapkin-Tapkin
Alina Nedobitko
Russian beauty
Oleg Pogodin
Director
Aleksey Borodachyov
Writer
Pyotr Ershov
Writer
Alexandr Gorokhov
Producer
Sergei Selyanov
Producer
Anton Zlatopolskiy
Producer
Ivan Burlyaev
Composer
Konstantin Kupriyanov
Composer
Dmitriy Noskov
Composer
Vladimir Bashta
Cinematographer
Serik Beyseu
Editor
Konstantin Larchenko
Editor
Izabela Cichonska
ProductionDesigner
Anastasiya Karimulina
ProductionDesigner
Natalya Smirnova
Executive Producer
Alexandr Shevchenko
Original Music Composer
Nadezhda Vasileva
Costume Design
Alexey Borodachev
Screenplay
Anna Zobova
Sound Director
Evgeny Ziborov
Sound Director
Anastasiya Karamulina
Production Design
Izabela Tikhonska
Production Design
Alexandr Khokhlov
Sound Director
Olga Mikhaylova
Costume Design
Yakov Bashta
Additional Director of Photography
Anna Esmont
Makeup Artist
Yulia Burova
Casting Director
Pavel Bezborodov
VFX Supervisor
Nikita Esipov
Sound Director
Yuriy Zharavin
Sergey Byzgu
Evgeny Kapitonov
Pavel Stont
Media.
Details.
Release DateFebruary 18, 2021
Original NameКонёк-Горбунок
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 40m
Budget$8,020,000
Genres
Wiki.
Upon the Magic Roads is a 2021 Russian live-action/animated fairy tale fantasy film directed by Oleg Pogodin from a screenplay by Aleksey Borodachyov. Produced by CTB Film Company, Russia-1, and CGF Company, the film is an adaptation of the 1850s Russian fairy tale The Humpbacked Horse (ru) by Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov as well as elements from Slavic folk tales. The film follows other adaptations of the fairy tale including the 1941 live-action feature-length film and the 1947 animated film of the same name filmed in the Soviet Union. The film stars Anton Shagin as Ivan the Fool, and Paulina Andreeva as The Tsar Maiden with the voices of Pavel Derevyanko, Lyasan Utiasheva, and Aleksandr Semchev.The principal photography took place near Saint Petersburg in 2018. The set pieces tried to recreate the fantasy world by Yershov, filming in an exact copy of the fairy tale city. The film was a film making exhibition requiring professional assistance from costume designers and set designers, a production team, software engineers with background visual effects, actors, actresses and cameramen.
The style used in the film was intended to recreate the Tsarist period of time described in Yershov's fairy tale, using a combination of Russian Art Nouveau and fairy-tale elements. The film tells about John - who is neither a prince, nor a hero, nor a handsome man, but his older brothers even consider him a fool. But everything changes when John has a friend and faithful assistant - the Little Humpbacked Magic Foal. John and the Foal will have to test their friendship, face an insidious adversary and overcome incredible trials to find the Cloud Princess.
Initially, the film was planned to be released on wide screen on 5 March 2020, but later its release was postponed first to 22 October 2020. Upon the Magic Roads was finally released theatrically on February 18, 2021 in Russia by Sony Pictures Productions and Releasing. The film received critical acclaim and commercial acclaim, with critics calling it an extraordinary continuity of cinematic creativity from past to present. The film became a blockbuster and was noted as the highest-grossing film adaptation of Russian literature, amounting to almost a billion rubles. The film is the 51st highest grossing film of 2021.