The film’s director, Vladimir Khotinenko, said that it was important that his audience “didn’t regard it as something that happened in ancient history but as a recent event… that they felt the link between what happened 400 years ago and today.”
El director de la película, Vladimir Jotinenko, dijo que era importante que su auditorio “no lo consider[ara] algo propio de la historia antigua, sino un acontecimiento reciente... que not[ara]n la vinculación entre lo sucedido 400 años atrás y hoy”.