Die Legende von Kolovrat (2017)
46KDie Legende von Kolovrat: Directed by Dzhanik Fayziev, Ivan Shurkhovetskiy. With Ilya Malakov, Aleksey Serebryakov, Aleksandr Ilin, Timofey Tribuntsev. In the 13th century, an amnesiac soldier vows to get his revenge on the Mongol army that ransacked his village.
“The recipe is familiar. the purpose is obvious. and the references to 300 Spartans are, in few points, a good detail ( except the poor Batu Khan transformed in clone of Xerxes ). the slices of video games are, maybe, useful. love, revenge, a vulnerable hero and something who only the historical Russian films give. a sort of heroism who defines more the passion than the art. the historical accuracy is not the virtue, the portrait of mongols is just a sketch with many cliches but it is a beautiful homage to a legendary hero. and that is the key. sure, not ignoring the propaganda aspect and , in my case, the profound subjectivity – Kolovratov was one of the heroes of my childhood..”
