Atakan. The Bloody Legend (2020) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

2020 · 81 mins · Russian

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Directed by

Alexandr Grishin

Starring

Vladimir Kuznetsov, Anna Serpeneva, Polina Strogaya, Kseniya Plyusnina, Denis Lukichev

A group of student historians, led by a young teacher, embark on a perilous journey to locate a legendary stone known as Atakan, a giant granite boulder steeped in a history of pagan human sacrifices. Descending into the dungeons beneath St. Petersburg, the team soon finds themselves in a terrifying situation where only death awaits. The ancient stone seems to crave new blood, and the historians must fight to survive the horrors they uncover.