Forbidden Empire

Synopsis

Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods. Nothing but chance and heavy fog could bring him to this cursed place. People who live here do not resemble any other people which the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world.

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Cast

Jason Flemyng

Jonathan Green

Aleksey Chadov

Petrus

Agniya Ditkovskite

Nastusya

Yuriy Tsurilo

Sotnik

Olga Zaytseva

Pannochka

Aleksandr Yakovlev

Overko

Igor Jijikine

Dorosh

Valeriy Zolotukhin

Yavtukh

Nina Ruslanova

Zhena Yavtukha

Viktor Bychkov

Kuznets

Ivan Mokhovikov

Bursak Khalyava

Anatoliy Gushchin

Bursak Gorobets

Alexey A. Petrukhin

Khoma

Alexander Karpov

Panas

Aleksey Ogurtsov

Spirid

Emma Černá

Babka Ganna

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Ruslan Ustinov

Ostap

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Natalya Ustinova

Zhena Ostapa

Oleg Taktarov

Gritsko

Andrey Smolyakov

Otets Paisiy

Crew

Art

• Arthur Mirzoyan Production Design

Camera

• Yaroslav Pilunskyi Director of Photography
• Jiří Maxa Additional Director of Photography
• Aleksandr Sakhno Additional Director of Photography
• Vladimír Smutný Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

• Jarmila Konečná Costume Design
• Pyotr Gorshenin Makeup Artist
• Natalya Gorina Key Makeup Artist

Crew

• Kamil Jafar Special Effects
• Aleksandr Stetsenko Stunt Coordinator
• Jiří Kuba Stunt Coordinator
• Marek Pinc Stunts

Directing

• Oleg Stepchenko Director
• Dmitry Galperin Assistant Director
• Maxim Malinin Assistant Director

Editing

• Petr Zelenov Editor

Production

• Leonid Ogorodnikov Co-Producer
• Oleg Lyubaev Executive Producer
• Anatoly Sergeev Producer
• Aleksey Ogurtsov Executive Producer
• Gleb Fetisov Producer
• Oleg Teterin Producer
• Alexey A. Petrukhin Producer
• Ruslan Ustinov Producer
• Alexander Kulikov Producer
• Oleg Andreyev Co-Producer

Sound

• Anton Garcia Music
• Bob Beemer Sound
• Arcady Noskov Sound Designer
• Ivan Titov Sound Designer
• Yuliya Ratnikova Sound Director

Visual Effects

• Arkadiy Dubinin Visual Effects Supervisor
• Eduard Kargin Visual Effects Supervisor
• Viktor Lakisov Visual Effects Supervisor
• Florian Maier Stereoscopic Supervisor
• Nikolay Goryaev Visual Effects Supervisor
• Igor Zadorin Visual Effects Supervisor
• Hristo Velev Visual Effects Supervisor
• Artur Abidnov Visual Effects Supervisor
• Dmitriy Tokoyakov Visual Effects Supervisor
• Evgeniy Gittsigrat Visual Effects Supervisor
• Ilya Shutov Visual Effects Supervisor
• Mikhail Korovyansky VFX Supervisor

Writing

• Oleg Stepchenko Screenplay
• Alexander Karpov Screenplay
• Nikolai Gogol Story

Photos