Plot synopsis

The feel-good New Year’s Eve comedy sequel to Six Degrees of Celebration (Elki, 2010) has already surpassed the original at the box office. An almanac film directed by six prominent directors and headed by Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Day Watch, Wanted) features some of Russia’s most celebrated actors in a series of romantic vignettes. For the past forty years, Grigori, a pilot, has been waiting without success for his beloved in Red Square on New Year’s Eve. Finally realising that she will never come he decides to work on New Year’s Eve and fly out of Moscow. Meanwhile, his lover, Yulia receives the long lost letter from Grigori telling her to meet him in Red Square for the New Year’s celebration. She flies out from Kazakhstan to Moscow. Will they finally meet? This romantic comedy is peppered with surprises and heartfelt holiday cheer celebrating the multinational tapestry of Russia.

Commentaries and bibliography

Dmitrii Kiselev: Six Degrees of Celebration 2 (Elki 2, 2011), Beach GRAY, kinokultura.com, 2012

Selected in the following festivals or events :

- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2016

- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2012

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012

- Comic Film Festival "Ulybnis, Rossiya", Moscow (Russia), 2012