A young girl wants to rob her mother's bank in order to have her to leave work and come home for a New Year Eve.
Acting
Yuliya Chernova carries this unhinged premise.
Production
Glimpses of 90s Moscow frozen in amber.
Director
Tigran Keosayan
Yuliya Chernova
Саша
Aleksandr Zbruev
Владимир Березкин
Vera Glagoleva
Сашина мама
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Начальник колонии
Olga Volkova
Амалия Аркадьевна
Valeriy Garkalin
Николай Крышкин
Boris Sichkin
Аристарх Растопчин
Spartak Mishulin
Корявый
Anatoli Zhuravlyov
Сохатый
Nina Ruslanova
Галя (жена Березкина)
Igor Vorobyev
Кувалда (охранник-бандит)
Roman Madyanov
прапорщик
Vladimir Dolinskiy
главный инженер
Georgi Martirosyan
полковник
Pavel Sirotin
директор
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures the specific desperation of 90s Russia, where economic collapse made workaholism both pathology and survival. The New Year's setting is crucial—it's Russia's biggest holiday, making mom's absence unforgivable.
Director Tigran Keosayan was primarily a TV host who stumbled into filmmaking. This was a massive commercial hit despite critical shrugs, proving Russian audiences craved family chaos over prestige.
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