The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part I

Plot

Ellie lives in a distant city. One day, the evil witch Gingema conjured a hurricane that took Ellie and her dog Totoshka to the country of the Munchkins. To return home, Ellie and her friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion will set off along the yellow brick road to the Emerald City in search of the Wizard who will grant their cherished wishes.

About The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part I

The Wizard of the Emerald City (Russian: Волшебник Изумрудного города. Дорога из жёлтого кирпича, lit. 'The Wizard of the Emerald City. The Yellow Brick Road', titled onscreen as The Wizard of the Emerald City. Part I) is a 2024 Russian live-action fairy tale fantasy film directed by Igor Voloshin, produced by Central Partnership in partnership with Petr Anurov's Kinoslovo company. The film is a screen adaptation of the 1939 children's novel of the same name by the Soviet writer Alexander Melentyevich Volkov, based on a reworking of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Young stars Ekaterina Chervova in her first film role as Ellie Smith, along with her dog Totoshka. The film also stars Yuri Kolokolnikov as the Tin Woodman, Yevgeny Chumak as the Scarecrow, Artur Vakha voiced the Cowardly Lion, who was completely computer-generated imagery, and Svetlana Khodchenkova as the evil sorceress Bastinda. The Wizard of the Emerald City premiered at the Karo 11 October at Arbat Square in Moscow on December 18, 2024, and was theatrically released in Russia on January 1, 2025. The film earned more than 3 billion rubles at the box office. The sequel, The Wizard of the Emerald City. Part II, is scheduled for 2027.

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