Guest from the Future (film)

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Guest from the Future
Directed byAlexander Andryushchenko
Written by
  • Andrey Zolotarev
  • Alexander Andryushchenko
  • Ksenia Miroshnik
Story byKir Bulychyov
Based onOne Hundred Years Ahead (ru)
by Kir Bulychev
Produced by
  • Mikhail Vrubel
  • Alexander Andryushchenko
  • Fyodor Bondarchuk
  • Denis Baglai
  • Vadim Vereschagin
  • Anton Zlatopolsky
  • Vyacheslav Murugov
  • Yuliana Slashcheva
  • Antonina Lee
  • Pavel Gorin
  • Elena Bystrova
  • Daria Chigirinova
Starring
CinematographyMikhail Milashin
Edited by
  • Alexey Starchenko
  • Alexander Puzyryov
Music byIgor Vdovin
Production
companies
Distributed byCentral Partnership
Release dates
  • April 14, 2024 (2024-04-14) (Karo 11 October)
  • April 18, 2024 (2024-04-18) (Russia)
Running time
142 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian
Budget₽900 million
Box office₽421 million[1]

Guest from the Future (Russian: Сто лет тому вперёд, lit. 'One Hundred Years Ahead') is a 2024 Russian teen science fiction film directed by Alexander Andryushchenko, loosely based on the 1978 Soviet novel of the same name by Kir Bulychev from the cycle about Alice Selezneva. The main roles was played by Vereshchagina and Edelstein. The novel was adapted as a five-part television miniseries of the same name made in the Soviet Union, which aired in March 1985.

Guest from the Future had its world premiere at the Karo 11 October at Arbat Square in Moscow on March 14, 2024,[2] and was released in the Russian Federation on April 18, 2024 by Central Partnership.

Premise[edit]

Kolya Gerasimov lives in Post-Soviet modern Moscow, and Alice Selezneva lives 100 years later. Kolya does not think about a future life, and Alice cannot let go of the past. She lost her mother and now she must find her. The meeting of Kolya and Alice will be the beginning of exciting adventures...[3]

Cast[edit]

  • Daria Vereshchagina as Alice Selezneva (also tr. Alisa Seleznyova)
  • Mark Eidelstein as Nikolai 'Kolya' Gerasimov
  • Kirill Mitrofanov as Fima Korolev, Kolya Gerasimov's friend and classmate
  • Alexander Petrov as Jolly Man U, a space pirate
  • Yura Borisov as Glot, the villain
  • Viktoriya Isakova as Kira Selezneva / Margarita, Alice Selezneva's mother
  • Konstantin Khabenskiy as Professor Seleznev
  • Fyodor Bondarchuk as Robot Werther (voice acting)
  • Sofia Tsibireva as Anastasia 'Nastya' Altukhina, Kolya Gerasimov's classmate
  • Matvey Astrakhantsev as Victor 'Vitka', Nastya Altukhina's boyfriend
  • Maria Maykova-Slidovker as Victoria Gerasimova, Kolya Gerasimov's mother
  • Valentin Moiseev as Kolya Gerasimov's father

Production[edit]

The story was first published in 1978, and four years later the first film adaptation of the work was released in slide show format. The most popular adaptation of the book was Pavel Arsenov’s 5-episode television film Guest from the Future, in which Natalya Murashkevich played the main role.

The producer of the film Invasion (2020 film), Mikhail Vrubel, first announced his desire to make a film in early January 2020. Initially, Egor Baranov was supposed to become the director of the project, but in the end this post was taken by Alexander Andryushchenko. The cameraman is Mikhail Milashin, the project is produced by Mikhail Vrubel, Fyodor Bondarchuk and Vadim Vereshchagin.

Filming[edit]

Principal photography began on November 2, 2022, in Moscow, and the region of Moscow Oblast.[4][5][6] At the end of December 2022, the first teaser of the project was published.

Release[edit]

Guest from the Future was scheduled to be theatrically released on December 28, 2023, but was later postponed to April 18, 2024.

Marketing[edit]

The first teaser trailer of Guest from the Future was released on April 18, 2023.[7] This trailer has the most negative rating among all Central Partnership releases, the number of negative ratings of the trailer is approaching fifteen thousand dislikes (4490/14747). For example, the trailer for the movie The Challenge had a ratio of likes and dislikes of 1688 to 1317.

Reception[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Box Office, Russian Cinema Fund`s Analytics (RCFA). Accessed April 13, 2024.
  2. ^ "Столичная публика оценила новую экранизацию истории Алисы Селезневой" [The capital's public appreciated the new film adaptation of the story of Alisa Seleznyova]. Film business today (in Russian). April 15, 2024. Retrieved April 18, 2024.
  3. ^ "Сто лет тому вперед / Guest from the Future, 2024". www.kinoafisha.info (in Russian).
  4. ^ Alperina, Susanna (November 2, 2022). "В Москве начались съемки фильма "Сто лет тому вперед" по Киру Булычеву" [Filming of the film One Hundred Years Ahead by Kir Bulychev has begun in Moscow]. Russian Gazette (in Russian).
  5. ^ "Фильм о новых приключениях Алисы Селезневой снимают в Москве" [A film about the new Alisa Selezneva adventures is being filmed in Moscow]. smotrim.ru (in Russian). November 2, 2022.
  6. ^ "Фильм о новых приключениях Алисы Селезневой снимают в Москве" [A film about the new Alisa Selezneva adventures is being filmed in Moscow]. www.vesti.ru (in Russian). November 2, 2022.
  7. ^ ""Сто лет тому вперед»: вышел трейлер ремейка «Гостьи из будущего"" [One Hundred Years Ahead: the trailer for the remake of Guest from the Future was released]. Afisha (in Russian). April 18, 2023.

External links[edit]

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