A young naive provincial guy Artem visits a friend in Moscow in the hope of finding a new beautiful life, but first he has to help him working the bizarre job of “sober driver” at night. On the first evening, picking up beautiful Christina from a nightclub, a misunderstanding leads to Artem ending up with her in a hotel room. Completely forgetting of last night’s events, Christina mistakes the guy for a young millionaire, and he, in turn, is in no hurry to disappoint her. With each date Artem falls more and more in love with her, but getting out of ridiculous situations becomes more difficult.
Acting
Horinyak's puppy-dog panic versus Martynenko's icy glamour
Production
Moscow's neon-soaked club scene as character itself
Director
Rezo Gigineishvili
Viktor Horinyak
Артём
Andrey Burkovskiy
Станислав
Irina Martynenko
Кристина
Yanina Studilina
Катя
Dmitriy Kulichkov
Николай
Evgeny Sangadzhiev
беллбой
Mikhail Politseymako
клиент
Natalya Kolyakanova
няня
Yevgeni Syty
владелец джипа
Natalya Zhernakova
мама Артёма
Sergey Belyaev
Анатолий
Mariya Poezzhaeva
девушка-активистка
Sergey Kozik
инспектор ДПС
Ilya Lovkiy
официант в отеле
Yuliya Sules
сотрудник штрафстоянки
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'sober driver' service depicted is a real post-Soviet phenomenon, where drivers-for-hire operate in a legal gray zone without official employment status.
Director Gigineishvili deliberately cast theater actors to heighten the artificiality of Artem's performance — the 'real' him never actually appears on screen until the final shot.
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