The Stronghold (2017 film)

• Danylo Kamenskyi as Viktor • Yeva Kosheva as Olenka • Roman Lutskyi as Oleshko • Oleh Voloshchenko as Illya • Oleksandr Komarov as Dobrynya • Heorhiy Derevianskyi as Old man Ovsiy • Stanislava Krasovska as Rosanka • Nataliya Sumska as Mylanka • Yerzhan Nurymbet as Andak • Yerbolat Tohuzakov as Shaman • Ivan Denysenko as Tugarin ==Production==

The Stronghold is the debut full-length feature film of director Yuriy Kovalyov. The book of the same name by Volodymyr Rutkivskyi was adapted into a screenplay by Sashko Dermanskyi and Yaroslav Voitseshek. Costume designer Antonina Belinska said that it had taken her one month to create costume sketches. "We have done painstaking work studying historical sources and consulted both with historians and reenactors quite widely. After that, we added some details to enhance the image and features, and based on all of that we created our characters' costumes", added Ms. Belinska. The film's budget was ₴40 million. ==Release==

February 2015: film rental usage rights sold to France during the European Film Market at Berlin International Film Festival. March 2016: The Stronghold film was sold for screening distribution on the territory of India, Vietnam and Malaysia during the Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (FILMART). March 29, 2016: the presentation of The Stronghold and the first press-conference of the authors and the cast took place at the Film.ua studio where the official film teaser was presented. Also, the release date and the distributor in Ukraine were announced. The TV premiere will be aired on Novyi Kanal on 14 April 2018. ==References==