Abigail (film)

Abigail (Эбигейл) is an 2019 Russian steampunk fantasy adventure film directed by Aleksandr Boguslavsky, and co-produced by Viktor Denisyuk and Evgeniy Melentev, the company Kinodanz. The film stars Tinatin Dalakishvili as Abigail Foster, with Gleb Bochkov, Rinal Mukhametov, Artyom Tkachenko, and Ravshana Kurkova.

The final set of filming is scheduled for autumn 2017 and will be held in Tallinn. The old center will be transformed into Fensington thanks to the magical world and the decorators, who are guided by the aesthetics of the 30-ies of the last century and the steampunk fashion.

Abigail is scheduled to be theatrically released in Russia on August 22, 2019 by 20th Century Fox CIS.

Plot
Abigail is a young girl living in a town which, many years earlier, experienced an epidemic of a mysterious illness and was subsequently sealed off from the outside world by the government. One of those who fell ill was Abby’s father, taken away when she was six years old. While searching for her father, Abby finds out that the epidemic never actually occurred, it was all a huge deceit. In fact, she lives in a world of magic. Her city has been seized by dark magi, who wiped out all other sorcerers, banned magic, and attempted to erase all traces of its existence.

The epidemic was a cover employed to ‘cleanse’ the city of magi. For many years, the Special Department has continued to snatch anyone who seemed to have magical powers, deeming them ‘infected’. Most of the inhabitants have no idea that the city’s rulers are not their protectors, but their prison wardens.

One day, Abby discovers that magical powers are stirring inside her. This scares her, but however hard she tries to suppress it the magic grows within her, and agents from the Special Department begin to hunt her down. She must flee from her home and begin a journey full of adventure and danger. This journey completely transforms her perceptions about the world in which she lives, the existence of magic, and herself.

Cast

 * Tinatin Dalakishvili as Abigail Foster
 * Marta Timofeeva as Young Abigail
 * Gleb Bochkov as Bale
 * Rinal Mukhametov as Norman
 * Artyom Tkachenko as William Garrett
 * Ravshana Kurkova as Stella
 * Ksenia Kutepova as Margaret Foster
 * Olivier Siou as Spenser
 * Cecile Plage as Lilian
 * Nikita Tarasov as Ethan
 * Petar Zekavitsa as Roy
 * Nikita Dyuvbanov as Marcus
 * Ivan Chuykov as rebel Ryan

Production
Currently, the film company Kinodanz is working on a large-scale and very promising project, steampunk fantasy, in which the main roles are played by Tinatin Dalakishvili and Rinal Mukhametov. The script of the film was co-written by the film director Aleksandr Boguslavsky and Dmitry Zhigalov.

Filming
Shootings will take place in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, and in the historical part of Tallinn, Estonia. The visual image of the fantasy city will be created on the basis of ancient buildings and narrow streets of Tallinn and Saint Petersburg, and finalized with the help of computer graphics.

Principal photography was completed in Tallinn will be transformed into the streets of the fictional city Fensington, in which, according to the plot, fairy tale events take place. The scenery combining the images of the 1930s.

Filmmakers of Abigail have developed an original conception of magic and a stylistics of closed fantastic city that combines steampunk and atmosphere of the early 20th Century Fox. There were created the unique images of the suits of city residents, rebels and their enemies - inspectors of the Security Division.

Post-production
In many computer graphics, magical battles, flying airships, and even fully simulated magical characters and objects. Visual effects will be created by your own VFX-studio Kinodanz.

Release
The exclusive materials of the film were presented to the public at the pop culture festival Comic-Con Russia 2018, which was held in Moscow in early October. Most likely, in the near future, the creators will publish new promotional materials, which allow viewers to know the fantastic world, recreated on the screen.

Marketing
November 9, 2018 the first teaser-trailer was released.