Russian Film Days Mumbai

15th-18th November

Very Best Day

Versus

Icebreaker

Friday

Good Boy

Queen of Spades

The Crew

Schedule

Very Best Day! (original title “Самый лучший день”)

Comedy | 2015 (Russia)

Stars: Dmitriy Nagiev, Yuliya Aleksandrova, Tolepbergen Baisakalov

Director: Zhora Kryzhovnikov

Duration, min: 112

15 November 19:45 Opera House

Petya Vasyutin, a successful traffic policeman, decided to start his own family, but he is still living with his mother, who is the owner of the roadside cafe. He has a bride Olya, the “queen” and the cashier of the local petrol station (it is a reference to the popular Soviet movie “Queen of Patrol Station”). Once, when he is almost ready to to propose to her, a well-oiled driver crashed his car. This driver is a famous Russian singer Alina Shepot. This incident becomes a starting point for a series of funny and adventerous events that led Petya to the new understanding of important things and make him to evaluete his life

The Crew (original title “Экипаж”)

Action, Adventure, Drama | 2016 (Russia)

Stars: Danila Kozlovsky, Vladimir Mashkov

Director: Nikolay Lebedev

Duration, min: 138

16 November 17:30 Cinepolis Andheri

A story about bravery, self-sacrifice and human dignity put on trial by the merciless power of nature. A young pilot is fired from military air force after disobeying an absurd order. He gets a job as a co-pilot with a civil airline. Being brutally honest and direct, he is not on best terms with his new colleagues. During a flight to Asia his crew receives a distress message from a volcanic island and makes a decision to attempt a rescue mission. Will it be a success? Will they survive the disaster? They have a single chance to find that out: by being a team and sticking up for one another

The Queen Of Spades (original title “Дама пик”)

Thriller, Drama | 2016 (Russia)

Stars: Ksenia Rappoport, Ivan Yankovskiy

Director: Pavel Lungin

Duration, min: 95

16 November 20:00 Cinopolis Andheri

After long years of emigration opera diva Sophia Meyer returns to Russia. Singer wants to bring Tchaikovsky’s «Queen of Spades» on the stage, where she made debut in her past. The show, no doubt, will be the best event of the season, and all the actors will wake up famous very soon. This is good chance for young singer Andrew, he wants to be reach and famous and ready for everything to get the desire part of Germann. But Sophia, who will play Countess, has realized his plans. Opera diva begins a big brutal game that will include all the participants

Good Boy (original title “Хороший мальчик”)

Comedy, Drama, Family | 2016 (Russia)

Stars: Ieva Andrejevaite, Anastasiya Bogatyreva, Vasiliy Butkevich

Director: Oksana Karas

Duration, min: 95

17 November 17:30 Cinepolis Andheri

Seems to be normal week in the life of unremarkable schoolboy Kolya Smirnov becomes a series of incredible accidents: Kolya falls in love with an English teacher, somebody burns a school extension with new computers, and Kolya’s dad decided for all family members not to sleep in the nights. That’s why nobody can thinking clearly. Аt the same time school director’s daughter Ksenia falls in love with Kolya, decided that it was he who set fire to the school. Now main character must find time to deal with his personal life, to investigate the fire-raising and establish relationships with parents

Versus (original title “Молот”)

Sport, Drama, Thriller | 2016 (Russia)

Stars: Aleksei Chadov, Oksana Akinshena

Director: Nurbek Egen

Duration, min: 115

17 November 20:00 Cinepolis Andheri

Career of the famous MMA fighter with the nickname Molot (means ‘hammer’) is destroied by a terrible accident just before the chance to get the champion title. Since now every fight could be his last one. But when his love turns out to be at stake, he proves that he was called “Нammer” not only for a knockdown blow. A real fighter at ring and and a strong man in life

Friday (original title “Пятница”)

Comedy | 2016 (Russia)

Stars: Danila Kozlovskiy, Sergey Burunov

Director: Evgeniy Shelyakin

Duration, min: 87

18 November 17:30 Cinepolis Andheri

What if gambling millionaire became a waiter for one night, office loser became the brightest star of the party, and the two “sworn” friends had to look for kangaroos at night in the Moscow region woods? Each of them had his own Friday! How it will end for everyone, only Saturday morning knows

Icebreaker (original title “Ледокол”)

Drama, Disaster | 2016 (Russia)

Stars: Piotr Federov, Aleksander Pal, Anna Mikhalkova

Director: Nikolay Khomeriki

Duration, min: 125

18 November 20:00 Cinopolis Andheri

Based on the true story. 1985. Huge iceberg is moving toward the icebreaker «Mikhail Gromov». Leaving from crash the ship is captured into the ice and is forced to drift near the coast of Antarctica. Sinister silence and horrible cold are around. Gas is ending, nerves on edge. And even if it would be possible to go away, there is no way to go. The crew of icebreaker has no right to make mistakes. One wrong decision and heavy ice will crush the ship…

Guests of the festival

Russia and India have been friends in areas from defence, technology cooperation and education to cinema. India was closest to Russia through the Bombay film industry (Bollywood), the most dazzling dimension of India's soft power. Names of Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Mithun Chakraborty are known by generations of Russians, while “Seeta aur Geeta” is synonymous with friendship and faithfulness. Russian film days in Mumbai, organized by Russia's National rights holders support Fund and Filmmakers' Union, is a first attempt by Russian authorities and film industry pioneers to revive lost cinematic bonds between the two countries. Russian film days will become an annual event, said Maria Lemesheva, editor-in-chief of The Hollywood Reporter Russia, and head of the Russian delegation.

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Good Boy

17 November 17:30 Cinepolis Andheri

Friday

18 November 17:30 Cinepolis Andheri

Very Best Day

15 November 19:45 Opera House

Versus

17 November 20:00 Cinepolis Andheri

The Queen of Spades

16 November 20:00 Cinopolis Andheri

Icebreaker

18 November 20:00 Cinepolis Andheri

The Crew

16 November 17:30 Cinepolis Andheri