- Country: Russia
- Genre: adventure, fantasy
- Producer: Alexey Telnov
- Premiere in Russia: 2020
- Starring: K. Alekseeva, P. Trubiner, L. Tolkalina, A. Tkachenko, M. Kazankova, O. Bazilevich, A. Kondyubov, E. Baigozina and others.
The film "Legends of St. Petersburg: Key of Time" (2020) will tell about the myths of the Northern capital of Russia, the exact release date and trailer of which have not been announced, but the actors and plot are already known. This national fairy tale tells about the girl Ksyusha, who will have to fight for her happiness and the happiness of the whole city with strange creatures of the other world. The story will tell about the unusual adventure of a girl who saves her family and all of Petersburg from the dark forces.
Plot
St. Petersburg is a mysterious place where mystical secrets and legends are concentrated. Not many people know that there is another, otherworldly Petersburg, inhabited by dark demons. The girl Ksyusha found out about this when she got into a foster family. It would seem that she found the long-awaited happiness, but the girl can lose it in an instant, because evil forces are targeting her parents, who are unaware of anything. And only Ksyusha and her friend Paramon will be able to stop the invasion of demons by starting the clock on Peter and Paul Square.
Production
The director of Legends of St. Petersburg was Alexei Telnov (Sea Buckthorn Summer, Anatomy of Treason, Tomorrow Morning).
The rest of the film crew:
- Producers: Sergey Alekseev ("DMB", "Theory of hard drinking", "The last case of Major Pronin"), Yevgeny Grigoriev ("Five minutes of silence", "Chekhov's motives", "Military intelligence: Northern Front");
- Screenwriter: Olga Pogodina-Kuzmina ("Two Women", "Not Strangers", "President's Vacation");
- Composer: Murat Kabardokov (Francophonie, Deep Rivers, Big Village Lights);
- Operator: Artem Dzharayan ("Danila Poperechny: Impartial", "Ivan", "Melnik").
Production: LenDoc.
So far, the creators do not provide information on when the exact date of the release in Russia of the film "Legends of St. Petersburg: Key of Time" will be set. The filming process of the tape was completed back in 2017 in St. Petersburg, and the premiere was supposed to take place in 2018. However, due to the director's illness and additional filming, the release date was postponed to 2019, but the release never took place. Now viewers are waiting for the picture to finally be released in 2020.
Actors and roles
The film stars the following actors:
- Ksenia Alekseeva - Ksyusha;
- Pavel Trubiner - Ksyusha's father (Mothers of Champions, Heaven on Fire, Black Cats);
- Lyubov Tolkalina ("How to Marry a Millionaire", "Listener", "Zhukov");
- Artem Tkachenko - Paramon ("Moths", "Red Queen", "Heavenly Relatives");
- Marina Kazankova ("Poor Nastya", "Closed School", "Duxless");
- Oksana Bazilevich ("Double Surname", "Scouts", "Mechanical Suite");
- Anatoly Kondyubov ("The Master and Margarita", "The Duelist", "You Can't Pardon Execution");
- Ekaterina Baigozina ("Secrets of the investigation", "Code", "Gogol").
Interesting Facts
Did you know that:
- Once the director Alexei Telnov heard a fairy tale that his friend told his daughter at night. Alexey decided to finalize this story and endow it with a legend - and this is how the idea of creating a film arose.
- Aleksey Telnov said that the film can be compared with Soviet films: "... our project absorbed all the best features of Soviet cinema: in it we show kindness, humanity and convey the feeling that a miracle is possible."
- The filming process also took place on the cruiser Aurora.
Whether the film crew managed to create a real beautiful fairy tale that will appeal to both adults and children, we will find out after the premiere of the film "Legends of Petersburg: The Key of Time" (2020), the release date has not been announced, the actors and plot are known, the trailer has not yet been released. The picture has every chance of being released in 2020, so viewers can only wait for its release in theaters.
