David DODSON
Дэвид ДОДСОН
David DODSON
Aleksandr MALYAREVSKY
Александр МАЛЯРЕВСКИЙ
Aleksandr MALIAREVSKI
Russia, 2012, 87mn 
Colour, fiction
8 First Dates
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8 первых свиданий

 

 Les Huit premiers rendez-vous

 8 pervykh svidaniy

 
Directed by : David DODSON (Дэвид ДОДСОН), Aleksandr MALYAREVSKY (Александр МАЛЯРЕВСКИЙ)
 
Cast
Oxana AKINSHINA (Оксана АКИНЬШИНА) ...Vera
Denis NIKIFOROV (Денис НИКИФОРОВ) ...Konstantin
Yekaterina VARNAVA (Екатерина ВАРНАВА) ...Ilona
Vladimir ZELENSKY (Владимир ЗЕЛЕНСКИЙ) ...Nikita
Svetlana KHODCHENKOVA (Светлана ХОДЧЕНКОВА)
Boris SHEVCHENKO (Борис ШЕВЧЕНКО)
Igor ZHIZHIKIN (Игорь ЖИЖИКИН)
 
Production design : Vladimir RODIMOV (Владимир РОДИМОВ)
Produced by : Sergey SHEFIR (Сергей ШЕФИР), Boris SHEFIR (Борис ШЕФИР), Andrey YAKOVLEV (Андрей ЯКОВЛЕВ), Vladimir ZELENSKY (Владимир ЗЕЛЕНСКИЙ)
Other persons :
Writing credits : Sudio Kvartal-95
Cinematography : Bruce ALAN GREENE
Production : Kvartal-95
Film revenue in Russia : 7.455 million dollars
Release date in Russia : 08/03/2012
 
Site : IMDb

Plot synopsis
Vera and Nikita know nothing about each other. They have never even met. Vera is a successful television presenter and is going to marry Konstantin, a well-known tennis player. Nikita is a vet and has proposed to Ilona, the managing director of a large clinic of plastic surgery. Their choices are flawless and correspond to the norm. One evening they go out to celebrate their successful private life: Vera in the company of her girlfriends; Nikita with his friends. But in the morning Vera and Nikita wake up in the same bed... Having decided that this is the consequence of a too cheerful party, they part in haste and leave in different directions. But the next morning all this repeats itself, only the calendar days change... Wherever they fall asleep, they wake up together!
 

Commentaries and bibliography
RUSSIA BEYOND Les cinq meilleurs films russes à regarder sur Netflix [Dans quels pays?], Alexandre NETCHAÏEV, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2020
David Dodson and Aleksandr Maliarevskii: 8 First Dates (8 pervykh svidanii, 2012), Lilya KAGANOVSKY, kinokultura.com, 2012
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2012