A bureaucrat kidnaps his own boss on New Year's Eve. What could possibly go wrong? Everything.
Grisha, an official from the committee for the protection of cultural heritage sites, has an ideal plan — to carefully kidnap the boss on New Year's Eve in order to make a deal with another shopping center in the city center himself. Grisha has provided for everything, and it's hard to imagine what could go wrong.
Acting
Igor Khripunov's desperate bureaucrat energy is uncomfortably relatable
Writing
Script finds comedy in Soviet-era institutional rot meeting modern greed
Director
Danil Ivanov
Igor Khripunov
Grisha
Valentina Mazunina
Zinaida
Anton Kuznetsov
Lyosha
Mariya Karpova
Marina
Vladislav Konoplev
Zek
Boris Kamorzin
Viktor Dmitrich
Irina Byakova
Elena Gennadievna
Mikhail Gorevoy
Vasiliy Valerevich
Aleksandr Bashirov
Intelligent
Yuriy Itskov
Okhrannik komiteta
Oleg Ryazantsev
Ofitsiant v pridorozhnom kafe
Vyacheslav Yurovskikh
Musicant
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'komitet po okhrane' bureaucrat is a uniquely post-Soviet archetype — petty power over crumbling legacy.
Director Danil Ivanov reportedly shot the New Year's Eve scenes during actual December nights in Perm, with temperatures hitting -25°C — the actors' visible breath is real suffering.
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