Five Russian guys, one chaotic Friday night — what could possibly go wrong? (Everything. Everything goes wrong.)
Friday night is almost like a shortened New year's night. One can expect every kind of surprises on that night. Friday night has its special magic.
Acting
Danila Kozlovsky's barely-contained panic is genuinely infectious
Writing
Escalation comedy that actually escalates instead of fizzling
Production
Moscow nightlife captured with chaotic authentic energy
Director
Evgeny Shelyakin
Danila Kozlovsky
Bondar
Sergey Burunov
Igor
Evgeniy Stychkin
Ilya
Pavel Derevyanko
Antonov
Natalya Bardo
Feya Pyatnitsy
Kirill Pletnyov
Maks
Anatoliy Burnosov
Lider gruppa Tony Burns
Mikhail Politseymako
Lyosha
Anton Shagin
Vitaly
Katerina Shpitsa
Vera
Yan Tsapnik
Vadim Ravilevich
Aristarkh Venes
Gosha
Emmanuil Vitorgan
Dubravin
John Bakhanbaev
taxi driver
Angelina Pritumanova
Margarita
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures specifically post-Soviet masculine bonding rituals — the 'posidelki' culture of all-male drinking sessions that romanticizes dysfunction as friendship.
Danila Kozlovsky was already Russia's biggest star when he did this; imagine Chris Hemsworth doing a low-budget party comedy with his actual friends.
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