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A modern fairy tale with scientists, partisans, cosmonauts, officials, and the Motherland. The scientist and his assistant are collecting the ingredients for an elixir that can resurrect dead people to life. At the same time, officials are looking for the carpenter who has a power to transmute water into oil.
Good for
- Friends night
- Teens
- Pure escapism
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
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Audiences 42GoodWatch 29
IMDb4.2
Running time
1 h 23 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 dramas, −26 min on the typical 109
typical 10983Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Reach
Streams in 123 countries
+113Released
2016
March 17, 2016
10 years ago
Genres
DramaFantasyComedyLanguage
Russian
Original language
Made in
Russia
and 1 moreDirecting · 1
- Daniil Zinchenko Director, Screenplay, Editor
Production · 3
- Lyusya Artemyeva Executive Producer
- Andrey Silvestrov Producer
- Tikhon Pendurin Producer
Camera · 1
- Alexandr Tananov Director of Photography
Costume & Make-Up · 1
- Anastasiya Nefedova Costume Design
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