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Produced by Sergey Selyanov and Alexander Boyarsky
Written by Maxim Sveshnikov, Konstantin Bronzit, Ilya Maximov, and Alexander Boyarsky
Directed by Konstantin Bronzit

•The first full-length feature by two-time Annecy Grand Prix winner Konstantin Bronzit
•The highest grossing Russian animated film of all time!
•Computer game and storybook based on the film also available.

One day, long ago, in the Russian city of Rostov, the fearsome army of Tugarin arrived demanding that the city surrender its gold or else suffer the wrath of their merciless master.

Now in Rostov, the priest had an enormous young son named Alosha. He certainly wasn't the brightest in town, but he was the bravest.

Alosha knew the time had come to stop Tugarin's torment and so he gathered the city together and announced his plan: Rostov would put its gold into the cave above the city, lure the Tartars inside, and close off the entrance with a huge boulder. Rostov cheered for its hero Alosha.

Everything went perfectly, except that the boulder rolled down the mountain and demolished Rostov leaving Tugarin and his army free to run away with its gold. Rostov wanted to kill that good-for-nothing Alosha.

Alosha is ashamed and vows to get back the gold and his good name. Joined by his devoted uncle, his beautiful fiancée, her nagging grandmother, their stoic donkey, and an extremely well read and annoyingly talkative horse, Alosha struggles across a rushing river, stammers in the presence of an over-the-hill hero, falls into a deep dark cave, begs for a brutal battle, tames a greedy Duke, comes face to fist with his sworn enemy, and returns home a legend.

And it's all true. Totally.