Underplayed Gems

The Last Warrior: Root of Evil (2020)

The Last Warrior: Root of Evil poster
Original title
Последний богатырь: Корень зла
Directed by
Dmitry Dyachenko
Genre
fantasy film, comedy film, adventure film, children's film
Country
Russia
Runtime
2h 01m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 206 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A modern man from Moscow named Ivan embraces his role as a folk hero in the magical land of Belogorie. He discovers an ancient source of evil threatening the fairy-tale realm. Ivan must stand with legendary heroes to fight the rising danger.

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What happens

The Last Warrior: Root of Evil (Russian: Последний богатырь: Корень зла, lit. 'The Last Bogatyr: Root of Evil'; also known as The Last Warrior 2) is a 2021 Russian fantasy comedy film, a sequel to the 2017's The Last Warrior (The Last Knight). The film is directed by Dmitry Dyachenko, and produced by The Walt Disney Company CIS, The Walt Disney Company's subsidiary in Russia, in collaboration with the Russian production company Yellow, Black and White. A new story about the meeting of two worlds - modern Moscow, Russia and the fabulous Belogorie, Ancient Rus'. The Rus' people were the heroes of Russian fairy tales, epics and legends live. Ivan Naydenov, having tried on the role of Bogatyr, discovers the origins of the ancient evil that threatens Belogorie and participates in an epic battle shoulder to shoulder with folk heroes. The film stars Viktor Khorinyak, Mila Sivatskaya, Ekaterina Vilkova, Elena Yakovleva, Konstantin Lavronenko, Sergey Burunov, Yelena Valyushkina, and Kirill Zaytsev, the voices of Garik Kharlamov as the fairy tale Kolobok. Principal photography began in June 2019, the film crew moved between the Moscow Oblast, Republic of Karelia, the Perm Krai, and again the North Caucasus, where mountain panoramas and relic forests were found near Sochi, in the Sochi National Park. The film was theatrically released in the Russian Federation by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International on January 1, 2021. A sequel, The Last Warrior: A Messenger of Darkness, was released in December 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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