The Book of Masters

4.4
  • Genre: Fantasy
  • Run time: 101 min
  • Premiere: 2009. October 29.

A beautiful and kind girl, daughter of Baba Yaga, finds a magical stone Alatyr while walking in a field. It transforms her heart into a stone and puts her under a queer curse. She is to be the evil Countess of Stones and live in a stone tower. If the greatest gem-cutter in the world brings the stone of Alatyr to life, though, she'll become the ruler of the world. The Stone Countess, now cruel and selfish, is fascinated with the idea. She starts searching for the best gem-cutters and forces them to work with Alatyr, so the magical stone would become a living thing. Neither of the gem-cutters succeeds, so she kills them. While being imprisoned in her tower, they work on a large book about the secrets of gem-cutting. Each of them edits the book, so it's later named "the Book of Masters".

Discover

Irina Apeksimova

Kamennaya Knyazhna

Olga Aroseva

Narrator

Valentin Gaft

Magic mirror

Gosha Kutsenko

Koshchey Bessmertnyy

Sergey Garmash

Govoryashchiy kon (voice)

Oleg Kots

Detina

Anna Kisel

Mamka-nyanka

Anzhela Korableva

Mamka-nyanka

Svetlana Kharlap

Mamka-nyanka

Art

Viktor Shmelev

Production Design

Sergei Alibekov

Production Design

Camera

Archil Akhvlediani

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Galina Ustimenko

Makeup Artist

Ekaterina Dyminskaya

Costume Design

Natalya Dzyubenko

Costume Design

Crew

Igor Laptev

Stunt Coordinator

Valeriy Derkach

Stunt Coordinator

Directing

Production

Natalya Krimenskaya

Casting Director

Sound

Vitaliy Kruglikov

Sound Director

Yuriy Poteenko

Original Music Composer

Writing