Vadim is an ordinary office worker with no prospects, desperate to somehow change his boring life. One afternoon, while pondering his life in a pub, a mysterious bartender offers Vadik a cocktail. Upon drinking this cocktail, Vadik's world is instantly transformed beyond recognition. He is now successful, attractive and interesting. However, Vadik needs to learn how to sustain this new mirage, once the cocktails run out.
Acting
Ivan Okhlobystin's unhinged bartender energy carries the whole thing
Production
Gleefully trashy aesthetic that knows exactly what it is
Director
Dina Shturmanova
Vitaly Gogunsky
Vadik
Ivan Okhlobystin
Barmen
Yuliya Parshuta
Yuliya
Yuriy Stoyanov
Yuliya’s father
Konstantin Kryukov
Artur
Vyacheslav Grishechkin
Big Boss
Anton Bogdanov
Roma
Gennady Gorbachev
face control
Vsevolod Boldin
HR-Manager
Olga Buzova
Vika
Evgeniya Yarushnikova
Lera
Evgeny Kravchenko
Bum
Liliya May
Secretary
Andrey Finyagin
Tolik
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is peak 2010s Russian comedy — cynical, class-obsessed, deeply suspicious of Western-style self-help optimism. The cocktail-as-metaphor hits different in post-Soviet context.
Vitaly Gogunsky was already famous from 'Univer' — casting him as a pathetic nobody was deliberate audience subversion. The film's 5.3 rating is almost part of the joke.
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