Silverland, a breathtaking Russian romance movie

MK Scarlett

MK Scarlett

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I've watched this very visual Russian movie somedays ago and it was a very beautiful moment. The music is beautiful as well. Here is the Synopsis:
In a vast ice city run by a military government, Matthew, a young man from the slums, tries to support his sick father. Driven by circumstances, he reluctantly joins the League, a band of thieves with revolutionary aspirations. One night, while trying to break into the home of a rich aristocrat, he comes face to face with their daughter, Alice. While everything seems to be against them, they fall madly in love. But both are unaware that their romance is in danger: Alice's parents are trying to marry her off to the town's general, whose ambition is to eradicate the League of which Matthew is a member...
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The Russian city is Saint Petersburg, and the story is set in December 1899. The sets, lighting, direction, acting and everything in the movie are breathtaking. The ice skating chases on the frozen Neva are gorgeous. Be prepared to watch a movie that will really take you away. And DCM knows how we might need it nowadays.

Here is the link on English Wikipedia and what it says about Filming:

Vast amounts of scenery were created for the film, taken from a 10,000-square-metre (110,000 sq ft) warehouse and installed on special structures on the Great Neva by emergency response personnel.[20][21]

Skates based on historical models were custom made for the film, as well as carriages, sleighs and cars of the period.[22] Jewelry used in the film was rented from Garrard & Co and kept under guard.[23][24][25]

Principal photography was undertaken from January to May 2019. Locations in Saint Petersburg include the Peter and Paul Fortress, the Grand prince with a passage of the Saint Michael's Castle, Vitebsky railway station, and the Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts. Scenes were also shot in Leningrad Oblast, such as at Great Gatchina Palace in the town of Gatchina. Interior scenes were filmed in Yusupov Palace, Marble Palace, Sheremetev Palace (Fountain House), as well as in the Vladimir Palace (House of Scientists)
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MK Scarlett said:
I've watched this very visual Russian movie somedays ago and it was a very beautiful moment. The music is beautiful as well. Here is the Synopsis:

Silverland_La_Cite_de_glace.jpg

The Russian city is Saint Petersburg, and the story is set in December 1899. The sets, lighting, direction, acting and everything in the movie are breathtaking. The ice skating chases on the frozen Neva are gorgeous. Be prepared to watch a movie that will really take you away. And DCM knows how we might need it nowadays.

Here is the link on English Wikipedia and what it says about Filming:



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It looks very beautiful. I would like to see it but in Russian. Did you see the movie in French?
 
loreta said:
It looks very beautiful. I would like to see it but in Russian. Did you see the movie in French?
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I watched it in English with French subtitles except for the short part in French, as that was a common language in Russian aristocraty then.

Here is the Official Website for the movie where the Russian trailer can be watched.

I've just found that it is available on Netflix, but not in France nor Spain for example, I don't know why. My husband found it by another way, but I don't how he did it. For the record, hereafter is the list of countries where it is available on Netflix:

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I'm sorry loreta that I cannot give you more clue on how to find it. :-(
 
MK Scarlett said:
I watched it in English with French subtitles except for the short part in French, as that was a common language in Russian aristocraty then.

Here is the Official Website for the movie where the Russian trailer can be watched.

I've just found that it is available on Netflix, but not in France nor Spain for example, I don't know why. My husband found it by another way, but I don't how he did it. For the record, hereafter is the list of countries where it is available on Netflix:

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I'm sorry loreta that I cannot give you more clue on how to find it. :-(
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Thank you, Dame Scarlett! I will wait to find a Russian version with subtitles. Yes, French was very popular in Russia at that time, and everywhere else also. Rich people knew French, diplomats, Princes and Princess, generals, great cooks and also aristocrats, etc.

Now that I am thinking about maybe I will look some Portuguese page that have movies to see, Portuguese look the movies always in original version.

Thank you again, Dame! I do not have Netflix, by the way.
 
MK Scarlett said:
I've watched this very visual Russian movie somedays ago and it was a very beautiful moment. The music is beautiful as well.
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Thanks for recommending MK, we finished it last night. As you said, it was beautiful. My daughter and i made it into a mini-series, dividing it up in 3 parts as it is quite long, 2 hours and 17 mins. We loved the story as well as the music.

(Fun fact, Matvey (in 1900) skates on Frisian 'doorlopers' *(made in the province of Friesland, northern Netherlands), which were first commercialised in 1875, and in the movie comments are made about how these were the best. I can attest to this, having learned to skate on them as a kid in the 1970s!
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I watched it yesterday evening in French. I will try to find it in Russian with french or english subtitles, because it's always better when you can hear the actors real voice.

It was a beautiful movie, the costumes, scenery, the colors and the light were beautiful, they did justice to St Petersburg. It's also nice to see a bit of the russian culture of the time, how rebellion was brewing in the background. I couldn't help but think of what would happen 17 years later.

Big kudos to the film-maker for introducing concept surch as freedom, love, loyalty, choices, feminism, faith in a way that is completly relatable something we don't have much in western films thanks to wokism.
 
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