“The animation project Three Athletes on Faraway Coasts by the Melnitsa Studio has become the box office hit of film distribution in the first week of the year. 

      The animated film has managed to bypass even the undoubted favourite of the viewers around the world - the movie  The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

      Three Athletes on Faraway Coasts continues the series of animated films on epic plots, which enjoy enormous popularity with the audience.

      This time the Witch Baba Yaga with merchant Kolyvan have conceived to displace the prince and to seize power in Kiev, while athletes have found themselves on a remote overseas island.

      The release of the Three Athletes on Faraway Coasts DVD has been scheduled for January 22.