What if meeting your childhood hero meant fixing his broken dreams first?
Stepbrothers Zhenya and Tyoma do not like each other, despite playing on the same hockey team and living under the same roof. Professor Maksim Muromtsev, also Tyoma's father, is working on a time machine. Finding themselves in his laboratory, the guys are accidentally transported to 1999, where they meet 12-year-old Vadim Shipachyov - a future star hockey player and Zhenya's main idol. Now the guys must have time to help Vadim believe in himself and follow his dream before they can return to the present to lead their team to victory.
Costume
1999 Russia aesthetic hits harder than it should
Acting
Stepbrother chemistry that sells the whole premise
Director
Ruslan Baltzer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vadim Shipachyov is a real KHL legend; the film essentially fanfics Russian hockey canon. Wild.
Baltzer's 1999 setting isn't just nostalgia — it's the last pre-Putin year, a symbolic 'before' for Russian audiences.
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