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Legends from the Past

2025

A gentle, wonder-filled journey into myth and wilderness that warms as a father and daughter reconnect.

Directed by
Ivan Sosnin
Genres
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Starring
Aleksandr Yatsenko, Anton Kuznetsov, Alexandra Babaskina
Overview
On assignment from the editorial office a reporter from Yekaterinburg goes to a village lost in taiga, where he hears an ancient legend about the lord of the forest. Upon his return home all of a sudden he starts seeing and hearing the ancient spirit who begs him to save the endangered fantastic creatures. The reporter agrees and in the company of his 12-year-old daughter, who has come from Moscow to spend the vacation with him, he sets off for the lands virtually untouched by civilization. The trip filled with unexpected adventures, will bring the father and daughter closer together because it’s only together that they will be able to solve the mystery of the ancient legends from the past.

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Directed by
Ivan Sosnin
Genres
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Starring
Aleksandr Yatsenko, Anton Kuznetsov, Alexandra Babaskina
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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • parenthood
  • nature
  • addiction
  • healing
Places
  • wilderness
  • countryside
  • road trip
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror2
Humour4
Realism4
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
adventure, family, fantasy
Directed by
Ivan Sosnin
Written by
Ivan Sosnin, Elena Khanova, Maria Orlova
Starring
Aleksandr Yatsenko, Anton Kuznetsov, Alexandra Babaskina, Natalya Pavlenkova, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Maryana Spivak, Vladimir Volkovyskiy, Yuriy Loparyov
Music
Arsen Baderkhan
Cinematography
Ivan Solomatin
Country
Russia
Languages
Russian, Komi

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