Frosty New Trailer For Animated Russian 3D Fairytale ‘The Snow Queen’

Always a delight in keeping the kiddies quiet, 3D animation has another entry on the way in the form of magical adventure THE SNOW QUEEN. The film, based on legendary Danish author Hans Christian Anderson’s classic children’s tale, is the first of Russian studio Wizart Animation’s canon and is directed by Maxim Sveshnikov and Vlad Barbe from a script by Barbe and Vadim Sveshnikov.

Wishing to create a new world where clean lines replace emotions and the polar wind cools human souls, the Snow Queen has blanketed the world in ice and set out to destroy all art. According to the predictions of a magic mirror, the last threat to the Snow Queen comes from the master glass-maker Vegard, whose mirrors reflect not only appearances but also souls. One day the polar wind takes away Vegard and his wife Una. But they manage to hide their baby-boy Kai and daughter Gerda

Time passes, the servant of the Snow Queen finds Gerda’s brother Kai, whom he believes to be Vegard’s successor. When Kai is abducted to the Snow Queen’s palace, Gerda embarks on a journey across the icy wonderland, facing difficult obstacles and finding new friends on her quest to set Kai free, defeat the Snow Queen and warm the hearts of people everywhere

WANTED and ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER’s Timur Bekmambetov serves as producer after distributing the fantasy film in Russia through his Bazelevs company. Vertical Entertainment will release it in the US on the 11th October in an effort to get a jump on Disney’s FROZEN, which is effectively the same story.

Source: Deadline