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Post by hyrkanian on Oct 5, 2022 8:26:52 GMT -5
Hope we get a version with English subtitles for us that know very little Russian. The movie will surely appear on pirate sites with English subtitles soon after the premiere(international title is Land of Legends), and it will probably be legally available on Amazon Prime, like all other Russian historical and fantasy films, but probably not before next year. This looks great. I noticed Elena Erbakova portrays the shaman/witch Tiche in the movie - kinda reminds me of the witch in CtB 1982. She is of Mongolian Buryat descent, from way out there near Irkutsk, north of Mongolia in Siberia, Russia. She also learned the the Uralic language of the Mansi saying: I learned to ride and mastered the Mansi language. It was important for director Anton Megerdichev that this beautiful language sounds in the film. The picture only benefited from this, because it shows the life of different peoples, and thanks to the Mansi language, the characters look more natural. We taught Mansi online, we had excellent consultants who later came to the site. I don’t want to brag, but this language was not very difficult for me, because it is similar to the Buryat language.
link: russia.postsen.com/trends/152943/Elena-Erbakova-taught-the-Mansi-language-for-filming.html
The novel is extraordinary - epic, complex, dark, cruel, with authentic, deep characters (there are no classic heroes in that world).
It is a very difficult read because it is written in a specific language, there are a lot of historical and ethnographic archaisms from the Uralic and old Russian languages, a lot of mythology (old pagan gods and creatures), the action takes place in several narrative streams during a long historical period, but when you manage to fully enter that dark and magical world that Alexei Ivanov so faithfully and successfully created, you don't want to get out, or rather to wake up.
Therefore, it is very difficult to make a film adaptation of this novel, so I am very interested in how well the director succeeded in this. Based on the trailer, it seems to me that he softened the dark tone of the novel and that this will still be a softer version, more receptive to a wider audience and more commercial.
The lead actor (and former sailor) Aleksandr Kuznetsov is familiar face from The The Scythian.
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Post by kemp on Mar 2, 2023 3:45:11 GMT -5
Seems Russians are one of the few people that still make fantasy films that look good. They make disasters sure, but seems that they are not burdened by the same shitty ideological restrictions that have taken over much of the Hollywood fanfare. Just leave it to the Russians, Turks and Mongols. Land of Legends
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Post by Jason Aiken on Mar 2, 2023 13:40:41 GMT -5
Damn, I'll take this any day over the token cookie cutter woke shit that Hollywood is cranking out.
As I said before, huge fan of the Duelist and the Scythian. This looks to be another winner.
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Post by Jason Aiken on Aug 24, 2023 20:59:39 GMT -5
Seems Russians are one of the few people that still make fantasy films that look good. They make disasters sure, but seems that they are not burdened by the same shitty ideological restrictions that have taken over much of the Hollywood fanfare. Just leave it to the Russians, Turks and Mongols. Land of Legends So did this ever come out? Any other good movies from Eastern Europe recently? Or has the war kind of put the entertainment industry on the backburner?
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Post by kemp on Aug 24, 2023 22:23:05 GMT -5
I think the entertainment industry from that part of the world has taken a major slomo in this climate, inside and outside of Russia. Weird thing is that Russian cinemas are still playing some of the Disney movies despite the boycott. Why they would play that shit is beyond me. I could't imagine being a Russian and willingly going to watch bullshit like "Avatar: The Way of Water", you would have to be as crazy as that Wagner guy that plotted a coup and got iced for it recently.
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Post by hyrkanian on Aug 25, 2023 8:20:15 GMT -5
So did this ever come out? Yes it is. It has mixed reviews. The average rating is 3/5. There are copies on the net, but they are of poor quality, I'm still looking for 720p.
Russian critics:
Reviews from the (mostly Russian, but also international) audience:
Russians are filming another ancient history movie-Злой город, Evil City.
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Post by hyrkanian on Aug 30, 2023 8:56:19 GMT -5
Two good old movies from Yugoslavia and Poland (with Eng. subtitles)
Banović Strahinja
Stara baśń: Kiedy słońce było bogiem-An Ancient Tale: When the Sun Was a God
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Post by Jason Aiken on Aug 31, 2023 5:30:13 GMT -5
Thanks for those reviews of Land of Legends , hyrkanian. I'll have to hunt down a copy somehow.
And those two older movies on YouTube you posted have pretty solid production values from what I can tell, will have to give them a watch.
They look better than today's direct to dvd/streaming stuff.
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Post by hyrkanian on Sept 6, 2023 9:14:57 GMT -5
And those two older movies on YouTube you posted have pretty solid production values from what I can tell, will have to give them a watch. They look better than today's direct to dvd/streaming stuff. Yes, the production is very solid, although there are no big battles with tens of thousands of extras and expensive special effects, but those are not qualities that would make me recommend these films anyway. Their value is of a different kind:
Another old cult film that is worth watching - Serbian folk horror TV movie from the seventies - Leptirica (She-Butterfly):
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Post by hun on Sept 11, 2023 14:19:56 GMT -5
Two good old movies from Yugoslavia and Poland (with Eng. subtitles)
Banović Strahinja
Crom and Tengri I remember watching this years ago dubbed in Turkish and could not remember the original name of the movie. Thanks Hyrkanian, this movie is great, been waiting years to watch this again.
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Post by hyrkanian on Sept 13, 2023 2:18:32 GMT -5
Crom and Tengri I remember watching this years ago dubbed in Turkish and could not remember the original name of the movie. Thanks Hyrkanian, this movie is great, been waiting years to watch this again. There is a little delay with these subtitles, but you will manage to follow the dialogues.
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Post by hun on Sept 13, 2023 10:31:12 GMT -5
Crom and Tengri I remember watching this years ago dubbed in Turkish and could not remember the original name of the movie. Thanks Hyrkanian, this movie is great, been waiting years to watch this again. There is a little delay with these subtitles, but you will manage to follow the dialogues. I got lucky managed to watch the English version on YouTube:
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Post by hyrkanian on Sept 15, 2023 8:11:39 GMT -5
There is a little delay with these subtitles, but you will manage to follow the dialogues. I got lucky managed to watch the English version on YouTube: OK, cool, although that recording is of poor quality. I always forget that viewers in other countries are used to dubbing of foreign films. In Serbia, all foreign films and TV series have subtitles. The only dubbing we like is in old Kung fu movies, because they're even funnier that way.
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Post by hyrkanian on Mar 22, 2024 4:58:07 GMT -5
The Magic Sword is the first and only Serbian fantasy/sword and sorcery movie, filmed in 1950. It was even distributed in American cinemas. It represents a beautiful adaptation of two Serbian fairy tales.
It is on the Youtube with English subtitles:
Serbian reviews:
These are reviews from foreign viewers:
Movie stills:
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Post by hun on Mar 23, 2024 1:35:27 GMT -5
Thanks Hyrkanian.
Watched about half an hour of it last night, looks cool.
I guess you probably know this, Bash Chelik translates as Head Steel in the Turkic language.
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