Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Role: Nadya
Director: Levan Gabriadze
Written by: Roman Nepomnyashchiy
Additional Cast: Konstantin Khabenskiy and Ivan Urgant
Language: Russian
Running time: 100 min
Release Date: Russia – 24 June 2011 (Moscow Film Festival)

Synopsis

Who said you have to win to be a champion? Vyacheslav “Slava” Kolotilov, a schoolteacher from a sleepy seaside town by the name of “Palchiki” (Fingers) comes to conquer Moscow with the manuscript to his first novel in hand. But instead, quite by accident, he conquers the heart of a beauty named Nadia (Milla Jovovich).

As their wedding approaches, Slava needs only to quit his job and tie up loose ends back in “Palchiki” before returning to Moscow to start a new life with his new bride. But due to a number of bizarre circumstances he is unable to leave and back in the big city, the wedding goes on regardless as Nadia has to fend off the attentions of her ex-boyfriend Danya (Ivan Urgant), who seems ready to do whatever it takes to win her back.

Production

– Initially the project was called Kolotilov.
– The film was not initially planned to be a romantic comedy, but the screenplay was altered at the late stage of production, when Milla Jovovich agreed to act in the film. Jovovich said in an interview that she agreed to act in the film because of her friendship with Ivan Urgant. Her scenes took ten days to film. Russian-speaking Milla Jovovich voiced her role herself, and it was her first role in the language. Although half Russian, Jovovich moved to London as a child, which made her main language English, so she had some difficulties with learning her lines.Her mother, Galina Loginova, also appears in the film. She plays Galina Alexandrovna, Nadya’s mother.
– Most of the film was shot in Yeysk, Krasnodar Krai.
– The first letters of the names of the actors who played in the film starring (Khabensky, Urgant, Jovovich) form an obscene word in Russian. In one of the trailers of the film, this is visible. For this reason, many cinemas refused to show the film’s trailer.

Awards

Russian National Movie Awards: 2012 Nominee Georges Award – Best Russian Comedy of the Year