

Russian indie kids dream of escape while their rock star patron watches them burn.
An amazing story about the life of a modern girl and her friends, the same desperate young people who do not want to put up with the gray routine and boredom, eager to escape from the real world into the world of their dreams and fantasies.
Acting
Agafonova's raw, untrained desperation
Direction
Rybakov's lo-fi Moscow underground aesthetic
Score
Lagutenko's Mumiy Troll adjacent melancholy
Director
Leonid Rybakov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Captures post-Soviet Russian youth culture where Western alternative rock became a lifeline for disconnected suburban teens.
Ilya Lagutenko, frontman of Mumiy Troll, essentially plays himself as a melancholy observer—rumored to be a favor to first-time director Rybakov.
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