Upon the Magic Roads (2021) on Netflix
The youngest of three brothers, John, guards the family's wheat field and befriends a small humpbacked foal. The King claims the horses John brings to market and makes him his chief groom.
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Plot summary
An old farmer shows his three sons a field of wheat trampled in the night and tells them to keep watch. The older brothers send the youngest, John, instead. In the dark he talks to a hedgehog he once saved and catches a mare, who carries him over fields and swamps before he lets her go on her promise to leave their fields alone. In the morning he finds two horses in the stable and a small Humpbacked Foal, sent by the mare to help him. At the bazaar the King claims the horses, and John whistles them back, so the King makes him chief groom. The people's fondness for John grows, and the King, who can find no reason to execute him, follows his chamberlain's advice and sends John to fetch the Firebird.
Cast
- Tatyana Polonskayaas Baba s tsyplyatami
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Upon the Magic Roads (2021)
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- John's costume was first planned as linen, but linen did not suit Anton Shagin, so designer Nadezhda Vasilyeva changed the style, and the final look was a handmade woolen sweater trimmed with chintz.
- A full-scale fairy-tale city was built for the film: filming began in a studio of over 7,000 square metres, with three pavilions the size of football fields, and the city grew from a market of five houses, a gate and part of a palace.
- Ivan Burlyaev, one of the film's three composers, said the delay in the schedule allowed them to rearrange the scores and find new themes.
- Its premiere weekend in Russia earned 251.2 million rubles, surpassing records previously set by Mulan and The Croods: A New Age, after pre-sales broke records set by major Hollywood companies.
