Legenda o Kolovrate

It is nice to hear stories about Russia and what they had to do. This movie was well made good acting and you can tell they spent some money on it. I highly recommend it. It is a great story and it is base on true facts which is Leary's good to know

I would love to watch a great film based in an Old East Slavic text such as The Tale of the Destruction of Riazan, about the legend of bogatyr Evpaty Kolovrat and the siege of the city of Ryazan, in Rus', by the Mongols in 1237. Also, I did like the costumes and the references to Slavic culture in this Russian production. Unfortunately, there are no more qualities. The film is cheesy and kitsch since the beginning, with so many bad aestetic choices: musical score, special effects, viceogame-like camera moves, 360° overstylized fight scenes with slow motion alternating with accelerating speed... There is also a strong Orientalist flavour, and it is impossible not to make a parallel with the graphic novel-based flick 300, both for the subject and for the portrayal of the huge exotic (either effeminate or wicked-eyed) expansionist enemy empire from the East.

First of all I could say that film is the mix 300 spartians and Russian movie The Horde. It is absolutely fantasy about East Europe of 13 century on historical base of legendary Russian warrior Kolowrat who had followed by enemy and battled against mongolians army one-by-one when his city was destroy. Advantages: Great music (System of Down), good and amazing clothing looks nice and unordinary...something middle between Chinese,japanise ang mongolian traditionary clothing, and a little bit of humour

Disadvantages: strange and illogic scenario, strange battle scenes, actors look as modern people and speaks in modern language

For me it was more interesting to watch if to compare 300 spartianses but it is not a great job..

The recipe is familiar. the purpose is obvious. and the references to 300 Spartans are, in few points, a good detail ( except the poor Batu Khan transformed in clone of Xerxes ). the slices of video games are, maybe, useful. love, revenge, a vulnerable hero and something who only the historical Russian films give. a sort of heroism who defines more the passion than the art. the historical accuracy is not the virtue, the portrait of mongols is just a sketch with many cliches but it is a beautiful homage to a legendary hero. and that is the key. sure, not ignoring the propaganda aspect and , in my case, the profound subjectivity - Kolovratov was one of the heroes of my childhood..

Well, i'm a Russian, and i'm from Moscow, Russia. I was born in USSR, 36 years ago. If you want to watch/listen to Russian "Bylina", then it's your choice. We, the Russians, remember his (Kolovrat's) Choice, his Heroic Deed (podvig). BUT. But this movie does't have anything to do with historical events (as we do know 'em). It's some sample of "hollywood" "action", brought to the Russian reality. My post is not about his deed, his self-sacrifice, but about historical reality. He did, what he did. Many of us would do the same nowadays. We just don't stand any lies, any interference in our lives. We don't like when anyone downplays our enemies. We don't like, when anyone displays our Heroes as comics characters (some stupid idiots like spiderman, whatsoever you may think). The problem of this movie is that it has too much pathos and it's doesn't have anything with, well, "historical reality". If you want to watch some (at least) good historical movies, then watch old "I na kamnyakh rastut derevya", or "Pathfinder"(1987!!! not that recent crap!).