Forbidden Empire

Overview:
Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods. Nothing but chance and heavy fog could bring him to this cursed place. People who live here do not resemble any other people which the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world.

Original Title:Вий
Status: Released (2014-01-30)
Awards:1 win & 2 nominations total
Screen:Nikolay Gogol, Aleksandr Karpov, Gerard Michael MacCarthy
Productions: Russian Film Group, Marinsgroup
Production Countries: United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic
Spoken Languages: Pусский, English
Forbidden Empire
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Reviews

Per Gunnar Jonsson

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This movie is probably quite unknown by most people. I certainly had never heard of it when I stumbled on it. It is a quite entertaining little fantasy / supernatural / crime movie though. I am actually not sure what to classify at as. It starts of as a fantasy movie but is it really ....

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CinemaSerf

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It seems to be that if your name is "Jonathan" then maybe you ought to avoid Romania? This one is called "Green" (Jason Flemyng) and he is trying to do some intricate cartography between Europe and Asia. With his stagecoach equipped with all mod cons - including some cleverly mounted ....

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