New Year's Chef

2023 1h 28m RU

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7.5

BANGER

★7.5TMDB · 4

Comedy

Synopsis

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Victor is the owner of a trendy restaurant, but things are not going well in it. The only hope is for New Year's Eve, because all the tables are already booked, but December 31 comes and the chef and the whole team leave the restaurant. It would seem that everything is gone, and then Olesya, the owner of the kitchen at home in a village near Moscow, appears in the restaurant. She brought cakes that Victor had accidentally ordered from her and even managed to forget about it. Victor offers Olesya to become a chef for New Year's Eve. She refuses, Olesya promised her son Kirill a New Year's tale with fireworks. Victor persuades her to agree, he believes in her and knows that Olesya has a special gift — to awaken the best memories from people with her dishes. Will Olesya and Victor be able to perform a real New Year's miracle: feed all the guests with special dishes and fulfill the promise made to Kirill?

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Zoya Berber
Olesya
Pavel Priluchnyy
Viktor
Maria Dmitrieva
Alisa
Irina Rakshina
Tatyana Aleksandrovna
Andrey Petelko
Kirill
Kristina Korbut
Dasha
Vladislav Miller
Roma
Yuliya Sules
Zina

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Vasily Rovensky
Writers: Olga Klemesheva, Vasily Rovensky
Languages: Russian
Countries: Russia

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RUNTIME

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88 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 3 years ago.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Vasily Rovensky, shot by Artem Tarasenkov. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Anton Gryzlov. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Maxim Mironenko shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Zoya Berber and Pavel Priluchnyy and Maria Dmitrieva carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt28655298 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

WILD

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Only 4 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Vasily Rovensky directs. Artem Tarasenkov behind the camera. Anton Gryzlov scores. Maxim Mironenko cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Russia. Dialogue in Russian.

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Things worth knowing

188 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Released 3 years ago.
3Directed by Vasily Rovensky, shot by Artem Tarasenkov. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Anton Gryzlov. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Maxim Mironenko shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Zoya Berber and Pavel Priluchnyy and Maria Dmitrieva carry the top of the cast.
7IMDB entry: tt28655298 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 4 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.