"Loosely based." Leonard instead of Harry, Scotland instead of England. Completely different. Will it be just as popular? Time will tell.
The Russian Orthodox Church has apparently joined forces with the country’s Ministry of Culture and military to produce a film condemning satanist foreign powers, inspired by Harry Potter and Nazism.
The cartoon, named Kids Against the Sorcerers, is intended “to entertain and educate” children about “the truth of what threatens our existence today” according to a short preview about the film posted on YouTube, by its makers.
According to the clip, the main antagonists of the picture are represented by “an academy of sorcerers and wizards” in Scotland, who “mend the minds of children with presents and magic, that create demons, invisible to human eyes” and seek to “topple our country from inside”. Our protagonists are Russian military school students, who decide to rescue their peers from the castle walls of the wizard school.
The leader of the wizards is a man named Leonard, who, we are told “took to the occult and thus betrayed his homeland.”
The preview itself was released in December, however it only started getting attention from bloggers earlier this week.
“We posted the video about the cartoon online on 29 December 2015,” Elena Asanbekova, administrative director of the film told Russian news site Russkaya Planeta . “For a few months everything was quiet and then it all literally blew up. Over the last few days it acquired over 60,000 views on YouTube and 800 comments.”
She explained the film is loosely based on a book by the same name, written in protest to J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Cont.
Story from - News Week
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