The Snow Queen

Name: The Snow Queen
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Family
Released: 2012-10-11
Duration: 1 h 16 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Ivan Okhlobystin, Dmitriy Nagiev, Lyudmila Artemeva, Anna Ardova, Elizaveta Arzamasova

Cold can freeze your heart, love can set you free

Снежная королева (2012)

Timing: 1:16 (76 min)

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Release date

2012-10-11

Country

Russia

Production

Bazelevs Production, Wizart Animation

Genre

Animation, Fantasy, Family

Budget

$7 000 000

Revenue

$12 000 000

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Director

Vladlen Barbe, Maksim Sveshnikov

Actors

Ivan Okhlobystin, Dmitriy Nagiev, Lyudmila Artemeva, Anna Ardova, Elizaveta Arzamasova, Galina Tyunina
All actors and roles (6)

Scenario

Vladlen Barbe, Maksim Sveshnikov

Producer

Timur Bekmambetov, Yury Moskvin, Aleksandr Ligay, Vladimir Nikolaev

Operator

Aleksey Tsitsilin

Composer

Artist

Audition

René Veilleux

Editing

Aleksey Tsitsilin
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Short description

The ice-cold Snow Queen wishes to turn the world into a frozen landscape, with no light, no joy, no happiness, and no free will. A young man, Kai, is rumored to be the son of a man who is the queen's only remaining threat. He is abducted and held captive in the queen's palace, and it's up to his sister, Gerda, to rescue him. Gerda journeys across an icy land, facing difficult obstacles and meeting wonderful new friends that help her in her quest to set Kai free, defeat the Snow Queen, and save the world from eternal frost.

What's left behind the scenes

The computer-animated 3D film "The Snow Queen" entered the European film market in 2013, when it was presented at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film received positive reviews from film critics from Brazil, South Korea, Israel, Indonesia, and the Middle Eastern countries. Offers for foreign distribution were made to the copyright holders.
The film was produced by Wizart Animation studio in Voronezh, Russia. Work on the picture took 5 years, not 3 as initially assumed, and was completed on October 22, 2012. Already on November 1 of the same year, the film was presented at the AMC Santa Monica cinema in California, USA. The reviews were exceptionally positive.
The film received 85% positive reviews both in Russia and abroad – in particular, at Marche du Film (one of the events within the Cannes Film Festival) and the International Animation Film Festival in Annecy, France – and won several awards.
Inspired by the success of the film "The Snow Queen", animators from Wizart Animation announced the start of work on a sequel titled "The Snow Queen 2: The Snow King". It was released in Russia on January 1, 2015.
The film "The Snow Queen" was shown as part of the International Film Festival for Children and Youth Buster in Copenhagen in September 2013.
The animated film was released in American theaters on October 11, 2013, and became available on DVD on January 28, 2014.

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