Ilsur Metshin: "It's great when a fairy tale comes true"

(KZN.RU, October 22, by Olga Gertseva). A prescreening of the movie "The True Fairy Tale” was presented in Kazan’s "Rodina" cinema. Many scenes of the movie were shot in the capital of Tatarstan.

Before the screening, the spectators were greeted by Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin, film producer Sergei Bezrukov, members of the filmmaking team and all those who assisted in the production. "We are all little and big kids, and it's great when a fairy tale comes true," said the mayor.

The producer and the actor who played the role of Ivan the Fool, Sergei Bezrukov, declared his love for Kazan. "I love Kazan. For two and a half years, while we were filming this movie, my love for Kazan grew strong and infinite," he intimated

"Today, there are no children's films in Russia. This is the only fairy tale to be shot in recent years. We were shooting the movie under the motto "No one but us," – the words uttered by my character.

“We were helped enormously in Kazan, and I am very grateful to the city. I am also grateful to Ilsur Metshin, who supported us in person. For me, Kazan this is a symbol of good people,” said Sergei Bezrukov.

"The True Fairy Tale” shows that both children and adults need to get back their faith in miracles and not be afraid to become heroes, to live and deal with everyday problems, to be able to understand each other. The idea of the film was suggested by Sergei Bezrukov. He came up with a plot outline, in which the world of Russian heroic folk tales ceases to exist because people no longer believe in them. The fairy tale heroes are forced to live in the real world of today.

Almost all real-world scenes were filmed in Kazan. The film's protagonist Sasha runs along M. Jalil Street and rides the trolley to the traffic police building on Orenburg Trakt. You can see some of the well-known buildings, such as the constructivist style print house on Bauman Street, built in 1935; the exhibition complex "Kazanskaya Yarmarka", and a picturesque morning panorama of Kazan taken from the Grand Hotel Kazan.

As the leading man Maxim Shibaev told us, for him the most difficult was the filming of the pursuit of Baba Yaga. It is this scene that offers the most breath-taking views of Kazan.

Three hundred copies of the film will be distributed to Russia’s cinemas, which does not seem to be enough to the filmmakers. They believe that neither children nor adults can remain indifferent to the movie.

Together with the Mayor of Kazan, the film was watched by the students of the cadet class of School 169. Ilsur Metshin has been a class patron since September last year.