The Wizard of the Emerald City (2024 film)

The Wizard of the Emerald City
The Wizard of the Emerald City
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Igor Voloshin
Written by	Timofei Dekin; Roman Nepomnyashchiy; Alexander Volkov (writer);
Based on	The Wizard of the Emerald City; by Alexander Volkov (writer); The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; by Frank Baum;
Produced by	Petr Anurov (ru); Vadim Vereshchagin; Aleksandr Gorokhov; Leonid Vereshchagin (ru); Nikita Mikhalkov; Grigory Stoyalov; Aleksandr Zharov; Darya Fardzinova; Marina Gurtovaya;
Starring	Ekaterina Chervova; Yuri Kolokolnikov; Yevgeny Chumak; Artur Vakha; Svetlana Khodchenkova; Vasilina Makovtseva; Aleksandra Bogdanova; Dmitry Chebotaryov (ru); Sergey Epishev; Egor Koreshkov; Sofia Lebedeva;
Cinematography	Mikhail Milashin
Music by	Nikolay Rostov
Production; companies	Central Partnership Productions; Kinoslovo; Studio TriTe; CGF Films; Cinema Fund; Watch movies by "Pushkin Map"; Likee; Europa Plus;
Distributed by	Central Partnership
Release dates	December 18, 2024 (Moscow); January 1, 2025 (Russia);
Running time	104 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Budget	₽900 million
Box office	₽3.338 billion; $38.1 million;

The Wizard of the Emerald City (Russian: Волшебник Изумрудного города. Дорога из жёлтого кирпича, lit. 'The Wizard of the Emerald City. The Yellow Brick Road', titled onscreen as The Wizard of the Emerald City. Part I) is a 2024 Russian live-action fairy tale fantasy film directed by Igor Voloshin, produced by Central Partnership in partnership with Petr Anurov's Kinoslovo company.

The film is a screen adaptation of the 1939 children's novel of the same name by the Soviet writer Alexander Melentyevich Volkov, based on a reworking of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Young stars Ekaterina Chervova in her first film role as Ellie Smith, along with her dog Totoshka. The film also stars Yuri Kolokolnikov as the Tin Woodman, Yevgeny Chumak as the Scarecrow, Artur Vakha voiced the Cowardly Lion, who was completely computer-generated imagery, and Svetlana Khodchenkova as the evil sorceress Bastinda.

The Wizard of the Emerald City premiered at the Karo 11 October at Arbat Square in Moscow on December 18, 2024, and was theatrically released in Russia on January 1, 2025. The film earned more than 3 billion rubles at the box office.

The sequel, The Wizard of the Emerald City. Part II, is scheduled for 2027.