The Snow Queen: Mirrorlands (Russian: Снежная королева: Зазеркалье, romanized: Snezhnaya koroleva: Zazerkalye, lit. 'The Snow Queen: Looking-Glass Land') is a 2018 Russian animated fantasy adventure film directed by Robert Lence and Aleksey Tsitsilin. It is the sequel to The Snow Queen 3: Fire and Ice (2016). The film follows the war between magicians and technocrats. The Snow Queen: Mirrorlands was presented at film markets and festivals such as AFM and Cannes. The film was released in Russia on 1 January 2019. It received generally positive reviews from critics. A sequel, The Snow Queen & The Princess, was released in 2022.
Plot Gerda and Kai are finally reunited with their parents. Together they move to a certain province, ruled by a powerful inventor King Harald. In a family full of professional magicians, only Gerda doesn't have the ability to wield magic. She goes to a woman who claims she can give her magic for the cost of ten dinars. Magic trinkets are going out of fashion for the people of the kingdom. However, the family is satisfied by selling first-class magic trinkets. One day an old woman comes to buy a trinket at their shop. Gerda tells it cost ten dinars. The old woman couldn't buy it all because of her retirement benefits. She almost leaves, before Gerda tells her to buy it for free. A new competition at the court was announced, with families including Gerda's clamoring to go and get the position as court magician. Sadly, Gerda is the only one who stays at the home, responsible for guarding the store items. King Harald is an ardent advocate of technical progress. I build machines and robots. Harald decides to banish all magicians from the realms. Harald nearly lost his family due to the Snow Queen's previous deeds. As reparation, Harald issues a new decree that the products of scientists, engineerss and the inventors will be the standard while the amulets, potions and talismans of the magicians will be relegated or even forbidden. King Harald finds a way to ban all the magic from the world - all the possessors of magic powers are now trapped in Mirrorlands. After the king traps all the world's magicians in the polar internment zone, Gerda finally finds out why all the magicians vanish at the palace. Gerda takes this mystery into her own hands as she battles to keep magic alive through kindness and friendship. However she is sent to jail at the top of the castle. Meanwhile, inside the Mirrorlands zone, a meeting is held for all the possessors of magic. Gerda's parents believe only their daughter can rescue them. They travel to the Snow Queen's castle, where she is playing chess. They reconcile all their past differences and agree for a united plan of action. Gerda will be helped by trolls, pirates, and even the frigid and mysterious Snow Queen herself. Even Rollan the wielder of fire will return from the previous film (who is ready to prove to Gerda (since he is in love with her), Kai, Alfida and Orm that he is ready to redeem himself for what he did back in the previous film) to help save the magicians from the imminent threat imposed by the magical blue mirror called the Mirrorlands. One of their rendezvous to the land of the trolls includes an aerial battle with zeppelins in the floating City of Pirates. Gerda manages to seek the services of air captain Alfida. Alfida agrees to sail the shark airship zeppelin with the hero and heroine as passengers. King Harald and his airship fleet are already on their way to thwart Gerda's plan of liberation engaging in a battle between spells and technology. Teaming up with the pirates of the Flying City, the heroes try to capture the capital of the region and re-open the portal of the Mirrorlands using the amulet of King Arrog. After many attempts to open the portal, the king's son finally confesses to his father that he is a wizard and banishes himself, to which he finally gives in and lets Gerda let out all the wizards he himself banished. Eventually, the Snow Queen is forgiven and befriends Gerda, promising to use her powers for good, not evil.
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