Dragon - Love Is a Scary Tale
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Dragon - Love Is a Scary Tale |
| Original title | On - drakon |
| Country of production | Russia |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Indar Dzhendubaev |
| script |
Aleksey Arsenev , Marina Dyachenko , Sergey Dyachenko , Indar Dzhendubaev |
| production | Antony Tanev |
| music | Simon Finley |
| camera | Sergei Trofimov |
| cut | Mariya Likhachyova |
| occupation | |
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Dragon - Love Is a Scary Tale (Original title: Russian Он - дракон On - drakon ) is a Russian romantic 3D - fantasy adventure film . It premiered in Russia on December 3, 2015. In Germany, the film was released on July 29, 2016 as a direct-to-DVD release. Internationally, the film was also released under the title He's a Dragon .
The songs Lullaby of Silence (original title: russian Колыбельная тишины ) and ritual (original title: russian Ритуальная песня ) of the soundtrack come from the Russian singer Jenia Lubich .
action
Long ago people lived in fear of a dragon, to which they sacrificed their daughters in order to appease it. The dragon kidnapped her to his island from where none of the daughters ever returned. One day a man followed the dragon that had kidnapped his lover and killed the monster.
Miroslava is to be married to Igor, the grandson of the dragon slayer. Igor insisted that the song of the dragon be sung at the wedding, after which the dragon appears for the first time in decades, kidnaps Miroslava and takes him to Dragon Island. Igor decides to leave and kill the dragon. On the island, Miroslava falls from the dragon's clutches and falls into a cave where she meets a man whom she calls Arman. He says he has been living on the island for a long time and that there is no escape from there. When Miroslava shakes hands with Arman, the dragon reappears, Arman disappears and Miroslava is able to escape from the cave. Miroslava meets Arman again and begins to question his motives, since he can apparently move freely on the island. As she shrinks from Arman, she falls from a cliff and is rescued by Arman, who can turn into a dragon. However, Arman is seriously injured in the fall and Miroslava treats his wounds with some reluctance at first. She becomes friends with Arman more and more and learns that the dragon killed by Igor's grandfather was Arman's father, and that the dragons sacrifice the women on an altar in order to multiply their species by burning them alive and from the ashes a new dragon emerges. Through an experience in his childhood, Arman tries to suppress the dragon in him, because in his opinion it is just a wild beast. Miroslava promises to show Arman to live like a human until Igor arrives, so that the dragon and thus Arman do not have to be killed. In return, Arman shows her how to make fireworks and how to see the wind. Miroslava uses this knowledge to secretly build a boat to escape from the island. When Arman finds out about this he is angry at first, but then tells Miroslava that she should leave immediately, because he knows that the dragon cannot be suppressed forever.
After leaving the island, Miroslava meets Igor, who is looking for Dragon Island with his ship in the fog. Back in Miroslava's homeland, everything is being prepared for the wedding again, while Arman wants to throw himself off a cliff on Dragon Island because he no longer wants to live without Miroslava. In the middle of the wedding ceremony, Miroslava begins to sing the song of the dragon, realizing that she loves Arman and not Igor. After a while the dragon appears, brings her back to the island and wants to sacrifice her on the altar. At the last moment, Miroslava kisses the dragon, which makes it lose its malevolence. Years later, Miroslava and Arman have a daughter, to whom they tell the story of the kite.
background
The film is Indar Dzhendubaev's debut feature film. Most of the shooting took place on the Black Sea . 85% of the film was made on the computer.
reception
Grossing results
The film played at the equivalent of 18 million US dollar production costs in Russia only 1.7 million US dollars. Even with the income from other states of the Commonwealth of Independent States ($ 1.8 million) and China ( CN ¥ 60.1 million ) he was unable to cover his production costs.
Reviews
The film received mixed reviews. On the critic's Rotten Tomatoes page , Dragon - Love Is a Scary Tale received an average user rating of 85 percent (as of October 2018).
On the occasion of the first broadcast of the film on Tele 5 on December 12, 2017, the program magazine TV Spielfilm ruled that the film Beauty and the Beast varied. Newcomer to director Dzhendubaev relies "on the power of the Stockholm Syndrome in his opulent fantasy love story ". The "visually stunning love story" surprised "with two charming actors and extremely attractive effects".
Web links
- Dragon - Love Is a Scary Tale in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Dragon - Love Is a Scary Tale . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ "Он - дракон": первый тизер нового проекта Бекмамбетова . mail.ru .
- ↑ Кинокомпания Бекмамбетова снимает фэнтези о драконе и силе любви . russkiymir.ru.
- ↑ Новости компании - December 4th, 2015 . t-platforms.ru. Archived from the original on January 31, 2016. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 23, 2016.
- ↑ 他 是 龙 （2016） ( Chinese ) In: cbooo.cn .
- ↑ He's a Dragon (On - drakon). rottentomatoes.com, accessed October 4, 2018 .
- ↑ tvspielfilm.de and issue 25/2017, page 76
