Dmitry DYACHENKO
Дмитрий ДЬЯЧЕНКО
Dmitri DIATCHENKO
Russia, 2021, 108mn 
fiction
The Last Warrior: A Messenger of Darkness
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Последний богатырь: Посланник тьмы

 

 Le Dernier Chevalier : messager des ténèbres

 Posledniy bogatyr’: Poslannik t’my

 
Directed by : Dmitry DYACHENKO (Дмитрий ДЬЯЧЕНКО)
Writing credits : Vasili KUTSENKO (Василий КУЦЕНКО), Vitali SHLIAPPO (Виталий ШЛЯППО), Dimitri YAN (Димитрий ЯН)
 
Cast
Viktor KHORINIAK (Виктор ХОРИНЯК)
Mila SIVATSKAYA (Мила СИВАЦКАЯ )
Yelena YAKOVLEVA (Елена ЯКОВЛЕВА)
Konstantin LAVRONENKO (Константин ЛАВРОНЕНКО)
Timofei TRIBUNTSEV (Тимофей ТРИБУНЦЕВ)
 
Cinematography : Pavel KAPINOS (Павел КАПИНОС)
Production design : Grigori PUSHKIN (Григорий ПУШКИН)
Sound : Pavel KAPINOS (Павел КАПИНОС)
Produced by : Kakhaber ABASHIDZE (Кахабер АБАШИДЗЕ), Eduard ILOYAN (Эдуард ИЛОЯН), Vitali SHLIAPPO (Виталий ШЛЯППО), Anton ZLATOPOLSKY (Антон ЗЛАТОПОЛЬСКИЙ)
Production : The Walt Disney Company CIS, Yellow, Black and White, телеканал «Россия»
Film revenue in Russia : 30.13992 million dollars
Spectators : 7 448 851
Release date in Russia : 23/12/2021
 

Plot synopsis
Ivan finally got a warrior’s strength. Evil magician Rogoleb was defeated. The whole Belogorie is preparing for a great feast: Ivan and Vasilisa are going to get married. And they have the same problems as normal couples have. What wedding dress to choose? Do they need ordinary or magical rings? Will the baba yaga’s cabin on chicken legs be a good choice for a honeymoon vehicle? In the middle of the preparations to the wedding the evil powers appear again: Vasilisa is kidnapped by mysterious Blac Knight. Following her tracks Ivan and his friends get into our world, today’s Moscow. The inhabitants of Belogorie consider the city a magical world - where people travel in strange chariots, talk to thin plates and cannot tell real magic from kid’s toys. But it turns out that some heroes from the old fairy tales live comfortably next to ordinary people in the modern world and they can help Ivan to achieve a final victory over the ancient Darkness.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
На метле и в ступе: как менялся образ Бабы-яги в российском кино, Вера Аленушкина, rg.ru, 2022