Young Muscovite Kirill is a talented designer of computer games. One day, he is completely erased from the memory of everyone he knew and loved. Kirill learns that he has been chosen for an important and mysterious mission: to become a customs officer between parallel worlds, of which there are dozens in the universe. Will Kirill unravel the mystery of these worlds and who controls them? And is our Earth really just an imaginary "draft" -- a parallel world -- which in reality does not exist ...
Production
Moscow as decaying futuristic playground — inspired production design
Cinematography
Parallel worlds distinguished by subtle color temperature shifts
Writing
Adapts Sergei Lukyanenko with emotional coherence the books lack
Director
Sergey Mokritsky
Nikita Volkov
Kirill
Yulia Peresild
Rosa Belaya
Evgeny Tsyganov
Anton
Andrey Merzlikin
Felix
Evgeniy Tkachuk
Konstantin "Kotya" Chagin
Nikita Tarasov
Arkana
Konstantin Konstantinov
Vilen Babichev
Fedor, blacksmith
Olga Borovskaya
Anna
Irina Khakamada
Irina
Kseniya Karatygina
mirror twin girls
Evgeniya Karatygina
mirror twin girls
Anna Peresild
Doch Pyotra Nikolaevicha
Severija Janušauskaitė
Renata
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Mokritsky shot the parallel world transitions using practical in-camera effects rather than green screen, requiring actors to hold positions between takes while sets were physically altered.
The film adapts Lukyanenko's 'Rough Draft' novel, part of his 'Worlds' series — Russian sci-fi's answer to multiverse fatigue, where interdimensional travel feels more like Soviet queue-standing than Marvel spectacle.
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