The Snow Queen (2012 film)

The Snow Queen Russian , Snezhnaya koroleva is a 2012 RussianFrenchAmericanEmiratiIranian 3D computeranimated adventure fantasy comedy family film written by Vadim Sveshnikov and directed by Vladlen Barbe and Maxim Sveshnikov. The Englishlanguage Cast stars Jessica Straus, Marianne Miller, Cindy Robinson, Doug Erholtz, Wendee Lee, Kirk Thornton, Christopher Corey Smith and Erin Fitzgerald. It was produced by Wizart Animation studio in Voronezh and is based on the story of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen, coproduced by Moscows Inlay Film, and distributed by Timur Bekmambetovs company Bazelevs. The movie was edited by Jonathan Abelardo, Vitaliy Konovalov, Anton Maslennikov, Mark Mercado, Ivan Titov and Denis Vakulenko, music composed by Brainstorm Prta Vtra and Mark Willott and also produced by Timur Bekmambetov, Alexander Ligaiy, Yuri Moskvin and Sergey Rappoport. The movie was released on December 31, 2012 in Russia, and internationally on January 3, 2013. In the United States, it was released in video on demand on October 10, 2013, in theaters stateside on October 11, 2013, and DVD on January 28, 2014. The Snow Queen created the world of eternal winter where the polar wind cools human souls and clearness of lines obscure emotions. A girl named Gerda, her pet ferret Luta, and Orm the troll must save her brother Kai and the world.

They first enter a garden dome run by a pretty lady who seems nice, but her true intentions are to drug and enslave Gerda to grow flowers. Orm and Luta catch wind of the scheme and thwart it, but the lady sends out her carnivorous plant named Ivy, but the trio make their escape. Meanwhile, in the ice palace, Kai arrives and the Snow Queen leads him to her throne room. The Queens mirror, after examining Kai, reveals that Master Vegard has two heirs. Kai tries to hide the truth, but the Snow Queen reads it in his heart and sees Kais painting of her.Gerda, Orm and Luta stumble into Imanas caves, the birthplace of trolls. Orm briefs about how the trolls age of peace was tainted by the Snow Queen and turned their clans to fight each other, until only Orm survived, and the souls of the trolls remained trapped in the lake Gow. Orm is contacted by the Ice Queen with orders to bring Gerda to her. Orm helps Gerda and Luta cross the evil lake Gow and she avoids its curse. ........

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