The Snow Queen 2: Refreeze (2014) on Netflix
TV-Y20141h 21mAdventureAnimationComedy
The troll Orm works as a miner, swears never to lie again, and then sees his reflection come to life. To win Princess Maribel's hand, he claims he defeated the Snow Queen.
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Plot summary
A year after Gerda defeated the Snow Queen, the troll Orm has thawed his fellow trolls and lives in the troll village with his grandmother Rosa and Gerda's white ferret Luta, working as a miner. At Lake Gao he promises never to lie again, and his reflection then comes to life and leads him toward wrongdoing. After offending the knight Arrog he loses his mining job, and with his cottage at risk he is talked into putting on armor and entering the competition for Princess Maribel's hand, where he claims he defeated the Snow Queen. Gerda, who arrives with her brother Kai and their friend Alfida, overhears the claim.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Snow Queen 2: Refreeze (2014)
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- Wizart Animation held a competition open to all Russian residents to cast the voice of the character Alfida; from 150 submissions it chose Valeria Nikolaeva, an accountant from St. Petersburg.
- The Snow Queen 2 became the first Russian film to top the weekend box office in a European country, reaching number one in Slovakia.
- Bollywood Films signed deals with Wizart Animation for theatrical distribution in Pakistan, making The Snow Queen 2 the first Russian film released theatrically in that country.
- Orm the troll was a side character in the first film, but the sequel promoted him to lead in place of Gerda, after audiences responded strongly to him in the original.
- The character North Wind is made of nearly 80 million particle pixels, and the shot of fish splashing out of a waterfall, built from over 25 layers of effects, took three weeks of tests and production. The special effects required a server of 200 terabytes.
- The Valley of the Trolls was inspired by the water channels on a map of Venice, and the Troll King's palace was built in the style of Italian architecture.
- Producer Vladimir Nikolaev said the trolls' wool is simulated with honest physics rather than animation, so it is crushed by their clothes and fabrics and reacts to every object the trolls touch.
