Wrong uncle at the airport, bandits on her tail, mom playing matchmaker — just another Russian New Year's!
Katya is a landscape designer. On December 31, she delivers New Year's trees to customers. The last tree from the unfulfilled order could have become Katya's only guest for the New Year, but her mother is determined to introduce her daughter to a young man. To avoid this fate, the girl agrees to meet her uncle, her neighbor from Chicago. From this moment on, the longest day of the outgoing year begins for her: she will pick up the wrong uncle from the airport, meet a man, hide from bandits pursuing her... and on New Year's Eve she will again find herself at her tree, but will she be alone?
Acting
Alina Alekseeva carries the madness with exhausted everywoman charm.
Production
Moscow December streets glow with authentic post-Soviet New Year melancholy.
Director
Aleksandr Barshak
Alina Alekseeva
Katya
Pavel Priluchnyy
Igor
Oskar Kuchera
Charles
Garik Sukachyov
Dyadya
Anastasiya Vedenskaya
Sveta
Vladislav Vetrov
Katya’s dad
Agrippina Steklova
Katya’s mom
Vladimir Gartsunov
mouse
Aleksandr Oblasov
Botyan
Yulianna Karaulova
star
Aleksandr Marushev
homeless man
Natalya Ungard
nymph
Margarita Bychkova
nymph
Natalya Tetenova
nymph
Daniel Barnes
Jonik
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Russian New Year's films are a national addiction — this is pure 'yolka' franchise DNA, where December 31st becomes a magical reset button for lonely Muscovites.
Pavel Priluchnyy was cast fresh off playing a gritty crime boss in 'The Method' — his pivot to rom-com lead here was deliberately jarring for Russian audiences.
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