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A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.


“The truth is in you”
Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods. Nothing but chance and heavy fog could bring him to this cursed place. People who live here do not resemble any other people which the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world.

Jason Flemyng
Jonathan Green

Aleksey Chadov
Petrus

Agniya Ditkovskite
Nastusya

Yuriy Tsurilo
Sotnik

Olga Zaytseva
Pannochka

Aleksandr Yakovlev
Overko

Igor Jijikine
Dorosh

Valeriy Zolotukhin
Yavtukh

Nina Ruslanova
Zhena Yavtukha

Viktor Bychkov
Kuznets
Forbidden Empire is a thriller, adventure, mystery, fantasy, horror, science fiction film released in 2014 exploring themes of monster, mystic, church, demon, witchcraft, dark fantasy. Directed by Oleg Stepchenko, it stars Jason Flemyng, Aleksey Chadov, Agniya Ditkovskite. Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods. Nothing but chance and heavy fog could bring him to this cursed place. People who live here do not resemble any other people which the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world.
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