The Wizard of the Emerald City (2024)

Original title

Волшебник Изумрудного города. Дорога из жёлтого кирпича

Directed by

Igor Voloshin

Genre

fantasy film, adventure film, family film, cinematic fairy tale

Country

Russia

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

ATP

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 89 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young girl and her dog are swept away to a magical land. She must travel a yellow brick road to find a wizard who can help her return home, meeting a scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion along the way.

whimsicalnostalgiclightheartedadventurouscolorfulwholesomeclassic

What happens

The Wizard of the Emerald City (Russian: Волшебник Изумрудного города. Дорога из жёлтого кирпича, lit. 'The Wizard of the Emerald City. The Yellow Brick Road', titled onscreen as The Wizard of the Emerald City. Part I) is a 2024 Russian live-action fairy tale fantasy film directed by Igor Voloshin, produced by Central Partnership in partnership with Petr Anurov's Kinoslovo company. The film is a screen adaptation of the 1939 children's novel of the same name by the Soviet writer Alexander Melentyevich Volkov, based on a reworking of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Young stars Ekaterina Chervova in her first film role as Ellie Smith, along with her dog Totoshka. The film also stars Yuri Kolokolnikov as the Tin Woodman, Yevgeny Chumak as the Scarecrow, Artur Vakha voiced the Cowardly Lion, who was completely computer-generated imagery, and Svetlana Khodchenkova as the evil sorceress Bastinda. The Wizard of the Emerald City premiered at the Karo 11 October at Arbat Square in Moscow on December 18, 2024, and was theatrically released in Russia on January 1, 2025. The film earned more than 3 billion rubles at the box office. The sequel, The Wizard of the Emerald City. Part II, is scheduled for 2027. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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