SEE FIRST IMAGES FROM THE MOVIE ADAPTATION OF RUSSIAN FAIRY TALE VARVARA THE FAIR WITH THE SILKEN HAIR STARRING ALEXANDER PETROV AND MILOS BIKOVIC

   FIRST IMAGES FROM   

The movie will arrive in two years

VARVARA THE FAIR WITH THE SILKEN HAIR FAIRY TALE MOVIE ADAPTATION

Straight from the land of Russia and their endless well of enchanting folk tales, myths and legends come first images from the new big screen adaptation of their famous fairy tale VARVARA THE FAIR WITH THE SILKEN HAIR (Варвара-Краса) which should arrive into cinemas in March 2027 and has recently started shooting. Rinata Timerbaeva will play the title character, and Vitaly Kornienko will play the role of the little inhabitant of the underwater kingdom, Echo. Also starring will be the ultimate Russian superstar Alexander Petrov, Panslavic star Serbian actor Milos Bikovic, Kirill Pletnev, and Nikita Policemako in undisclosed roles to be revealed later on.

  THE STORY OF THE ENCHANTING FILM

is set in a magical, fairy tale land, where a story filled with enchantment, cunning, and true love unfolds. Tsar Yeremey promises the ruler of the underwater kingdom, Berendey, the marriage of his only son, Yelisey, to his daughter, the beautiful Princess Varvara the Beautiful. However, instead of an heir, a simple blacksmith, Andrei, arrives in the kingdom, whose fate suddenly intertwines with the underwater world. Unexpectedly, he becomes involved in events that could change the course of entire worlds. Stay tuned  as we will be keeping you posted on this one in the upcoming year.

SEE MAGNIFICENT TRAILER FOR BURATINO FAMILY MOVIE ADVENTURE, A NEW VERSION OF FAMOUS PINOCCHIO

   BURATINO   

FIRST TRAILER FROM FAMILY ADVENTURE

 Set for January 2026 release over in Russia is family fantasy movie adventure BURATINO based on the famous story of Pinocchio from director Igor Voloshin with Aleksandr Yatsenko as Papa Karlo and our dear Aleksandr Petrov lending voice to cat Bazilio with Fedor Bondarchuk as Karabas Barabas.  It will be an old fairy tale in a new way. The story of everyone's favorite hero Pinocchio, his dad Carlo and their friends, told with the help of modern technology. The film is based on Alexei Tolstoy’s fairy tale “The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Pinocchio,” which takes place in the Kingdom of Tarabar following wooden doll Pinocchio, who goes through many adventures. See the trailer below and tell us what you think.

 

SEE ALEXANDER PETROV FACE A SEA BEAST IN KRAKEN ADVENTURE MOVIE TEASER TRAILER

  SEE ALEXANDER PETROV   

FIGHT A SEA BEAST IN KRAKEN TRAILER

Straight from Russia comes an exciting first trailer for their sea creature disaster movie KRAKEN (Кракен) which will land into cinemas April 17th with

Kraken is out this April in Russian cinemas

Alexander Petrov in the lead role. A Russian special-purpose missile submarine disappears without a trace during a secret mission in the Greenland Sea. A crew under the command of Viktor Voronin, whose older brother Alexander Voronin commands the missing submarine, is sent to search for it. The sailors are faced with a task: to find the submarine by any means possible and prevent the new top-secret weapon from falling into the hands of the enemy. At the same time, due to geological research at a polar station in the northern waters, the Kraken awakens: a giant monster capable of merging with the underwater darkness, possessing an intelligence of an unknown nature. It is with him that the sailors searching for the missing submarine will have to face.

FIRST IMAGE FROM BURATINO FAMILY MOVIE ADVENTURE, A NEW VERSION OF FAMOUS PINOCCHIO

   BURATINO   

FIRST IMAGE FROM FAMILY ADVENTURE

 Set for January 2026 release over in Russia is family fantasy movie adventure BURATINO based on the famous story of Pinocchio from director Igor Voloshin with Aleksandr Yatsenko as Papa Karlo and our dear Aleksandr Petrov lending voice to cat Bazilio with Fedor Bondarchuk as Karabas Barabas.  It will be an old fairy tale in a new way. The story of everyone's favorite hero Pinocchio, his dad Carlo and their friends, told with the help of modern technology. The film is based on Alexei Tolstoy’s fairy tale “The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Pinocchio,” which takes place in the Kingdom of Tarabar following wooden doll Pinocchio, who goes through many adventures.

PANSLAVIC SUPERSTAR MILOSH BIKOVICH TO PLAY PETER THE GREAT IN BIRTH OF AN EMPIRE HISTORICAL EPIC! ALEXANDER PETROV, VICTOR DOBRONRAVOV JOIN POLANSKI'S PALACE MOVIE! SEE DISNEY + MAGICAL WILLOW EPIC SERIES TRAILER

  BIRTH OF AN EMPIRE 

CASTS MILOSH BIKOVICH AS TZAR PETER THE GREAT

After becoming pretty much a Tom Cruise type of blockbuster superstar over in good old Russia, it was rather logical that Serbian actor and panslavic star Milosh Bikovich will sooner or later get an imperial role. And now he

Milosh Bikovich is Peter the Great

has! Hollywood Spy can exclusively announce that he is playing tzar Peter the Great in his younger years in new Russian historical epic movie THE BIRTH OF AN EMPIRE (Рождение империи) from director Aleksey Nuzhniy. It will cover 1698-1709 - ten years from the life of Peter the Great, during which he laid the foundations of the future Russian Empire. From the return of the great embassies from Europe to the Battle of Poltava. After the signing of a peace treaty with Sweden in 1721, Russia officially became an empire, and Peter became the first Russian emperor. The film, shot last autumn and winter, should premiere December 29th as the most beautiful New Year's present. The film will also include one of the actors from Western Europe as King Charles XII.

 

  PALACE MOVIE CASTS  

RUSSIA'S ALEXANDER PETROV AND VICTOR DOBRONRAVOV

Speaking of Russia, her actors Victor Dobronravov and Alexander Petrov will star in in Roman Polanski's new film PALACE, a black comedy which takes place at the ski resort Gstad in the Swiss Alps. The story

Victor Dobronravov and Alexander Petrov will star in Palace

covers 24 hours before the New Year, 2000. The cast also includes Mickey Rourke, Oliver Mazucci, Fanny Ardant, John Cleese, Joaquin de Almeida and Fortunato Cerlino! Out this November, this $17.8 million movie is a co-production between Italy, Switzerland and Poland. 

  MAGICAL WILLOW TRAILER  

FOR NEW DISNEY SERIES

Disney Plus has announced the November 30th start date of their new epic series WILLOW with the first, rather lovely, trailer. Warwick Davis is reprising his movie role of Willow Ufgood in a story of a child destined to be

Warwick Davis returns to his famous movie role of Willow

an empress, and the unlikely hero who would protect her. Ellie Bamber also stars in this film set in a magical world where sorcerers, trolls, and other mystical creatures flourish, and where the adventure continues, as an unlikely

The series will hit Disney Plus November 30th this year

group of heroes sets off on a dangerous quest to places far beyond their home, where they must face their inner demons and come together to save their world.

UPCOMING RUSSIAN PERIOD SET SERIES & FILMS: 1920'S PETROGRAD SET FRIED CHICKEN, ALEXANDER POPOV'S DECEMBER ON YESENIN & ISADORA DUNCAN, VLADIMIR YAGLICH'S PRINCE OLEG, CASANOVA IN RUSSIA, CATHEDRAL SERIES

 FRIED CHICKEN SERIES 

SET IN 1920'S PETROGRAD

Fried Chicken should arrive sometime next year

This weekend the spy is presenting you a number of upcoming historical series and films coming from Russia, starting with the 16 episode FRIED CHICKEN (Цыплёнок жареный) which should arrive next year starring Nikita Volkov. 

 

   Spring 1921. The introduction of the New Economic Policy begins to rapidly change Petrograd, exhausted by wars and revolution. MarchesF and hymns are diluted with foxtrot and chanson, well dressed people appear on the embankments and, as a result, gopniks (members of lower class sub culture) appear, hurrying to take their money away.

Fried Chicken will air in sixteen hourlong episodes

Lawlessness begins, which the Central Committee is not able to cope with - shops are raded five times a day. And then the criminal world of St. Petersburg, headed by the thief in law Uncle Kolya, stands up to protect the

Gorgeous Nikita Volkov takes the lead role in the series

business owners. But not all businessmen agree to pay Uncle Kolya. And he sends one of his fighting squads to them. The most famous and productive of them is the gang of the protagonist of the story Rodi - a former anarchist, a broken hearted dude and heartthrob from the north!

 

  DECEMBER TV SERIES 

STARRING ALEXANDER PETROV

December arrives Autumn next year

Also arriving sometime next year is a sixteen episode period set series DECEMBER about the love between famous poet Yesenin and ballet dancer Isadora Duncan, starring one of Russia's most popular actors Alexander Petrov and directed and written by Klim Shipenko, who recently became the first director to ever shoot a film up in space. 

 

In the series, the famous dancer Isadora Duncan, who was preparing Yesenin's escape from the country of the Soviets, arrives at the border of the USSR from Germany. All he has to do is get on the train and get to Riga. The poet flees from Moscow to snow covered Leningrad,

December series features some amazing costumes

where he falls into a mad whirlwind of events. He rushes towards his beloved in spite of any obstacles that constantly arise in his path. The series is

The series will air in sixteen hourlong episodes

currently set for October 20th 2022 television premiere. The series itself was shot in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Especially for the series, a large-scale sets

Klim Shipenko wrote and directed the series

were built covering an area of more than 7 thousand square meters. The film version will air in cinemas before the series arrives and you check out the highly stylized trailer below:

 

   PRINCE OLEG MOVIE 

MAN WHO UNITED RUSSIANS 

Probably the most anticipated of all the upcoming epic projects is PRINCE OLEG (Or Oleg the Prophet, Вещий Олег) a movie which is also coming from director Klim Shipenko with Vladimir Yaglich in the lead

Vladimir Yaglich takes the lead role of Prince Oleg

role. Based on the book by Boris Vasiliev "Prophetic Oleg" it is set in the 9th century after the birth of Christ. Numerous Slavic tribes are mired in civil strife that ravages the land. River trade route from the Varangians to the

The film started shooting years ago in Russia

Greeks passes through the East European plain all the way to the Black Sea. Merchants who risked equipping their ships are in great danger of being robbed and killed or sold into slavery. In addition to Slavic robbers, the

Klim Shipenko both wrote and directed the historical movie

Vikings and Pechenegs are engaged in robbery as well. The Khazar kaganate has long sought to seize the entire trade route and enslave the Slavic tribes, more than half of which are already paying tribute to it! From the West, the

The film follows prince Oleg who united Russian tribes

troops of the Great Roman Empire are advancing further and further east. The last stronghold of the descendants of Slavs and Russians was Novgorod, a powerful trading city inhabited by Slavs. Great Rurik - the prince of Novgorod

There are axe wielding female warriors in the film as well

protects the city and its trade routes, but time is relentless and Rurik has grown old and is no longer able to subordinate the entire trade route to his

And also powerful and handsome archers ready for battle

control. Only one prince of the Russians Oleg can unite scattered tribes and create a powerful state capable of repelling invaders of all stripes ...

 

 

 CASANOVA IN RUSSIA 

AT CATHERINE'S COURT 

This one has been in works for a long time and should finally air its twelve episodes next year. CASANOVA IN RUSSIA stars Serbian actor Ivan Bosilychich

Ivan Bosilychich plays the title role

in the title role and Maryana Spivak as Catherine the Great alongside our lyubimiy Ilya Malakov as Potemkin

The year is 1762. In Russia, there is a palace coup, Catherine is forced to sign a pledge to return the throne to her son Paul when he comes of age. Many are trying to obtain such an invaluable instrument of influence on Russia. The Vatican entrusts this matter to Casanova - so he can atone for all his previous sins. To do this, Casanova needs to charm three ladies: the one on the throne, the one that sells the document, and the one that will save

The twelve episode series is partly set at Catherine's court

Casanova himself. Mortal dangers await the great heartthrob at every turn. Finally, the invaluable document is in the hands of Casanova, but he disposes of it in a completely different way from what he was entrusted with!

 

 THE CATHEDRAL SERIES  

THE TIME OF PETER THE GREAT 

And here is one that is already available in Russia, as of November 4th it can be found on their streamer Okko. The twelve episode series is set in the

Cathedral is already streaming over at Okko

Russian Empire in 1700, during the great reforms of Peter the Great (Maksim Averin). Young serf Ivan Starshov (Sergei Marin) falls in love with his master's daughter Maria (Svetlana Ivanova) and refuses to put up with the fact that the social gap between them can prevent them from being together. He turns to the priest for help, appealing to the fact that God created people equal, but he calls on Ivan to accept his lot as a slave and forget about a girl from a noble family. In anger, Starshov renounces his faith and escapes from the village in order to change his fate and prove that he is worthy of the girl he loves.

 

SPOTLIGHT ON 2020 RUSSIAN MOVIES: ALEX PETROV AS SOCCER LEGEND STRELTSOV, SF GAMING HIT FEYA, ALEX PETROV'S LOVESTORY ROMANTIC COMEDY

   ALEX PETROV IS

 FOOTBALL LEGEND STRELTSOV

We shall finish the week in which I presented you with a few upcoming Russian films with the whole weekend dedicated to the biggest among their

Streltsov is expected to become a huge blockbuster

2020 features, starting with STRELTSOV (Стрельцов) in which our dear Alex Petrov plays one of their soccer legends. By the age of twenty, Eduard Streltsov has everything one can dream of: talent, money, fame and love. He is the rising star of the Soviet football. The whole country expects victory from the national team at the upcoming World Cup where Streltsov is to face the great Brazilian football player Pelé. However, sportsman's enemies destroy his career a few days before the team leaves for the event. When his sport career seems to have ended for good, Streltsov has to re-enter the field and prove that he is a true champion who is worth everybody's love.

   'FEYA' TRAILER

Feya aired on their KinoPoisk website

A NEW LOOK ON GAMING INDUSTRY

One of the films that already had its online premiere over there during the corona outbreak is FEYA which offers an unusual view on the gaming industry.  Konstantin Khabenskiy plays the creator of the best virtual reality games who is sure that he controls everything in his life. But a chance meeting with a young activist opens his eyes to the fact that the world is much wider and complex than his ideas. 

   ALEX PETROV'S LOVESTORY

 A CABDRIVER AND HIS LOVE

Speaking of gorgeous Alex Petrov he will also lead romantic comedy LOVESTORY (Лавстори) which was shot three years ago but is still waiting

Lovestory still does not have a release date

for a release date. Taxi driver and unfortunate actor Seva Gorelov accidentally meets his first love Masha Sokolova, once a young and carefree girl, and now a thirty year old spoilt woman. During one of Seva's taxi shifts, Masha accidentally becomes his client. They travel together far to Sochi to their homeland, Seva and his teenage love. There, Masha has a wedding a few days later, but not with Seva, of course, but with a rich patron. From the very beginning it becomes clear - this trip will not end in anything good. 1600 kilometers of adventure, well spiced with humour, ambition, tears, resentment, flirtation, passion and deep emotions, which are again inappropriate!

MINDBENDING NEW TRAILERS FOR RUSSIAN SF MOVIES COMA AND ATTRACTION 2: INVASION WITH RINAL MUKHAMETOV, ALEXANDER PETROV, MILOS BIKOVIC, ANTON PAMPUSHNYY

  NEW 'COMA' TRAILER

 IS HERE TO BLOW YOUR MIND!

Coma will hit Russian cinemas finally this November

Earlier this May I showed you the mind blowingly spectacular first trailer for new science fiction Russian movie COMA (Koma) and now we have a new, equally stunning English language one starring our favourite Russian star, always lovely and charismatic, Rinal Mukhametov, and Serbian actor Milos Bikovic, who is quickly becoming a major panSlavic superstar. Anton Pampushnyy, whom we also love heaps, and Lyubov Aksyonova round up the cast of the movie written and directed by Nikita Argunov! The movie is out November 22nd!

The movie was shot with a $20 million budget!

 Coma
After a colossal and mysterious accident a young talented architect comes back to his senses in a very odd world that only resembles the reality. This world is based on the memories of the ones who live in it - people who are currently finding themselves in a deep coma. Human memory is spotty, chaotic and unstable. The same is the COMA - odd collection of memories and recollections - cities, glaciers and rivers can all be found in one room. All the laws of physics can be broken. The architect must find out the

The movie is filled with amazing post apocalyptic costumes!

exact laws and regulations of COMA as he fights for his life, meets the love of his life and keeps on looking for the exit to the real world which he will have to get acquainted with all over again after the experience of COMA.

  'ATTRACTION 2: INVASION'

 STUNNING 1ST TRAILER IS HERE

Speaking of Russian sf movies, there is also the first trailer for their movie ATTRACTION 2: INVASION the sequel to one of their biggest movie hits ever, which is out in cinemas next January also starring Rinal

Invasion starts the first day on New Year!

Mukhametov and Alexander Petrov. The fall of an alien object divided lives into “before” and “after”. An ordinary girl from Moscow, Julia Lebedeva, was forced to put up with the role of an experimental rabbit in the laboratory, because she was the only one in contact with the alien. Scientists and the military dismantle her feelings and emotions into atoms, trying to unravel the nature of the forces growing in her. But the worst thing is that her superpowers excite not only earthlings.The planet is literally faced with a threat of invasion. And there is only one way to defeat the coming clash - to find the strength to

Rinal Mukhametov's Hakon is alive and ready to awake in the sequel

remain human in yourself. When everyone, for the sake of common salvation, must make a choice on which the life and fate of millions depends, can love, loyalty and mercy become stronger than ruthless power and alien technology?

WAR TUESDAY: RUPERT PENRY JONES, JASON FLEMYNG TO LEAD 'PEGASUS BRIDGE' WW2 ADVENTURE! 'UNION OF SALVATION' 19TH CENTURY RUSSIAN IMPERIAL GUARD FILM POSTER

   'PEGASUS BRIDGE'

 RUPERT PENRY JONES TO LEAD WORLD WAR II ADVENTURE

Two war films for you today! First up Rupert Penry Jones, Jason Flemyng in PEGASUS BRIDGE. In the early hours of the 6th of June 1944 Allied Airborne Forces launched one of most daring assaults in history. 181 men in 6 gliders landed at night to capture two bridges vital to the success of the D-Day landings, one of these would become known as PEGASUS

Rupert Penry Jones will lead the cast of Pegasus Bridge

BRIDGE. The men who captured and held these objectives were led by two very different young leaders. Major John Howard led the Infantry who managed to land their gliders a stone's throw from the bridge and Colonel Geoffrey Pine Coffin (Rupert Penry Jones) led the men of the 7th Parachute Battalion who occupied the surrounding ground and held off the German counter attacks.

   'UNION OF SALVATION'

RUSSIAN IMPERIAL GUARD AGAINST NAPOLEON

Meanwhile, December will bring us our dear Russian star Alexander Petrov (from Gogol and T-34) in new historical drama UNION OF

The movie hits Russian cinemas this Christmas

SALVATION or SOYUZ SPASENIYA.  The film tells about the imperial guard officers of the Russian army during the Patriotic War of 1812, who defeated Napoleon's army. They were ready to sacrifice everything for the sake of equality and freedom. Russian troops occupied Paris. Russia became the first power in the world. Now everything seems possible. Young winners, imperial guard officers, are sure that equality and freedom will come - here and now. For this they are ready to sacrifice everything - position, wealth, love, life ... and the country itself. Ivan Kolesnikov, Anton Shagin, Maksim Matveyev, Dmitriy Palamarchuk, Kirill Zaitsev, Yuriy Borisov, Aleksandr Metelkin and Sergey Koltakov also star.

1ST LOOK AT LIU YIFEI AS DISNEY'S LIVE ACTION 'MULAN' IS HERE! JET LI JOINS AS THE EMPEROR, WITH DONNIE YEN, GONG LI! MINDBLOWING TRAILER FOR RUSSIAN WW2 EPIC MOVIE 'T-34'!

   'MULAN'

 FIRST PHOTO OF LIU YIFEI

What better way to start Monday than with your first look on Disney's new MULAN of Liu Yifei as the girl who dresses as a man and joins the imperial army. You already know that young Yoson An is playing her love interest.

Liu Yifei plays Mulan in the new live action version of the famous tale

The cast also has Jet Li as the emperor of China and Donnie Yen as Mulan's mentor, Commander Tung, while Gong Li is the villain in the March 2020 movie. Jason Scott Lee also stars.

   'T-34' ENGLISH TRAILER

FOR RUSSIAN WW2 EPIC MOVIE

Continuing our visit to mother Russia, check out the mindblowing English trailer for their new WW2 film T-34! The Great Patriotic War, 1941 year. In the battles at Volokolamsky frontier, Junior Lieutenant Ivushkin on his tank

The movie opens in Russia this December

destroys the tank company of the Hauptmann Klaus Jager and finds himself in German captivity. Three years later, the Soviet tankman, despite the discontent of his comrades and the camp underground, suddenly agrees to lead a group of prisoners of war who are destined to become "cannon fodder" on captured T-34. However, Ivushkin uses the teachings for a daring and carefully planned escape. Thanks to the heroism of the comrades and the confusion of the Germans, Soviet tankmen are at large. Ahead - a provincial and undeveloped Germanic outback, to the border with the Czech Republic - 350 kilometers, and on the tail of the Soviet crew - a dozen "Panther" led by one of the best tankmen of the Reich Klaus Jager.

NEW RUSSIAN FANTASY MOVIES: 'THE SCYTHIAN', 'FRONTIER' AKA 'RUBEZH', 'GOGOL, VIY' UNLEASH EVIL SPIRITS, NASTY WARRIORS, WITCHES AND TIME TRAVEL

   'THE SCYTHIAN'

 WARRIOR OF THE WILD STEPPE

The Scythian has hit DVD market around Europe

Entertainment from dear old mother Russia, today, spylings, as I have a number of their 2018 fantasy movies to present you with! First up, a rather nasty and dark trailer for THE SCYTHIAN! These are times when one civilization is replacing another. A new era is about to begin in Central Eurasia. Scythians, the proud warriors, are all but gone. The few of their descendants have become ruthless mercenary assassins, the "waves of Ares"! Lutobor is a soldier with a difficult task at hand. He becomes involved in internecine conflicts and sets off on a perilous journey to save his family. His guide is a captive Scythian by the name of Weasel. Lutobor and

The Scythian is also known as The Last Warrior

Weasel are enemies. They pray to different gods but must embark on this journey together. They brave the wild steppes, moving toward the last haven of the Scythians, to what seems to be their inevitable demise.

   'FRONTIER' AKA 'RUBEZH'

 A TRIP TO WORLD WAR 2

Equally imaginative story awaits you in a rather interesting mix of reality, fantasy and history. FRONTIER (aka Rubezh)  follows Michael whose perfect

Pavel Priluchniy plays the lead role in Frontier

life changes dramatically when he discovers a portal which allows him to travel in time. He travels back to the World War II to go through the quest of time and find his one and only beloved.

   'GOGOL, VIY' THE SEQUEL

Alexander Petrov plays the role of Gogol

DON'T LEAVE THE CIRCLE

The spy has informed you about  Russian fantasy movie "Gogol: The Beginning'' last year and now here is its sequel GOGOL, VIY. It again follows famous Russian writer Nikolai Gogol, who, at least on film, suffered unpredictable violent epileptic seizures, but during such seizures he would get visions from the dark world. This time, a serial killer has already murdered eleven women around a village, rumours spread by the

3rd part of the saga is, meanwhile, out this month

villagers claiming the killer is a dark horseman. Gogol is ordered to investigate the murder cases, instead of going there to solve it, he's beginning to suffer macabre visions more and more during his investi- gation, then he suddenly learns the next victim would be his girlfriend, Liza. But he doubts his ability could stop what's going to happen. He then accidentally meets a witch hunter, Khoma Brut, and together they ask witch Ulyana to summon the evil spirit Viy to help them stop the coming murder. Meanwhile, the third part of the movie saga A TERRIBLE VENGEANCE is out in Russian cinemas this August.