The Stronghold

The Stronghold (2017)

Сторожова застава

Protect the past for the sake of the future

A solar eclipse activates a magic time portal, and a regular schoolboy Vit'ko from the 21st century goes a thousand years back in time. It doesn’t take Vitya long to recognize the legendary bogatyrs in young Oleshko, powerful Ilya and severe Dobrynya. Their life passes in fighting cumans who try to destroy Rusichi at any cost, using both weapons and black magic. Vitya finds himself in the very midst of incredible events, battles with mythical creatures and acquires real courage.

Date of release
2017-10-12
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (240)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, History
Director
Yuriy Kovalyov

Casting

Interesting facts

The Stronghold is a Ukrainian fantasy adventure film based on the eponymous book by Volodymyr Rutkivskyi and directed by Yuriy Kovalyov. Produced by Egor Olesov and Yuriy Prylypko, the film was released in Ukraine on 12 October 2017. The film is about Victor, a present-day schoolboy, who goes a thousand years into the past.

Production

The Stronghold is the debut full-length feature film of director Yuriy Kovalyov.

The book of the same name by Volodymyr Rutkivskyi was adapted into a screenplay by Sashko Dermanskyi and Yaroslav Voitseshek. Costume designer Antonina Belinska said that it had taken her one month to create costume sketches. "We have done painstaking work studying historical sources and consulted both with historians and reenactors quite widely.

The film shoot began in November 2015 on the Olexa Dovbush Cliffs in the Carpathians, in Korostyshiv open pit, Teterivskyi Kish (Teteriv Warcamp) ecospace and in Bucha, as well as on the Film.ua film set with the massive scenery of the Stronghold itself built specially for the production. The filming continued in spring 2016.

It was an acting debut both for Danylo Kamenskyi and Yeva Kosheva starring in the film.

Post-production, СGI and VFX have been done by a Ukrainian studio Postmodern.

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