Your smart speaker becomes your ride-or-die while hunting for genies? Peak 2027 energy.
Shy and sometimes naive schoolboy Sashka lives with his grandmother and confides his secrets to a smart speaker because he has no friends. But Sashka has a special power - faith in miracles, thanks to which he gets into a whirlpool of extraordinary events. In the company of a witty genie from a jug and a smart speaker that has come to life, Alisa, Sashka sets off on a dangerous journey across half the world to find his parents, who after a sandstorm in Uzbekistan ended up in a magical city, captive to Shah Zaman. Sashka and company will face the machinations of the evil sorcerer Yusuf, battles on flying carpets, hot air balloon trips, chases across endless steppes, crossing the desert and meeting people who are ready to help the boy find his family again.
Practical Effects
Flying carpets that actually look airborne, not screensaver.
Acting
Derevyanko's genie: part trickster, part therapist, all chaos.
Director
Pavel Ivanov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Uzbekistan as magical wonderland reverses decades of Russian cinema treating Central Asia as backdrop.
Alisa's voice interface was modeled on Russia's actual Yandex assistant, making this the most expensive product placement in history.
KG
RU
