Boris works as a geography teacher in an ordinary Khabarovsk school. His life is pretty routine. In addition to the school and the garden, Boris has a son, Misha, with whom they have been communicating less and less lately and have become distant people for each other. Everything changes when Misha gives his father his old smartphone for his birthday. Boris begins to understand the phone and registers in social networks. Accidentally, Boris adds one unfamiliar woman named Nadezhda as a friend. An active correspondence is tied up, which subsequently becomes fateful. At one point, Boris decides to go to Nadezhda in the Moscow region to surprise her. He persuades his son, who is engaged in hauling cars, to take him with him on a trip. During a joint trip through all of Russia, old conflicts between father and son are revealed, the reasons for their separation from each other are clarified.
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Cast
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Yevgeni Syty
Boris
Known for
Arrhythmia
Gogol. The Beginning
Philipp Avdeev
Micha
Known for
Chernobyl: Abyss
Leto
Ekaterina Ageeva
Macha
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Elena Yakovleva
Nadejda
Known for
The Last Warrior: Root of Evil
The Crew
Irina Pegova
Natalya Pavlovna
Known for
Kitchenblock
The Crew
Dmitry Lysenkov
le directeur
Known for
The Vampires of Midland
Stalingrad
Kirill Käro
le chauffeur routier
Known for
Better Than Us
To the Lake
Andrey Urgant
Vova
Known for
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Lovey-Dovey
Andrey Blagoslovenskiy
neighbour
Known for
The Ninth
Natalya Shcherbakova
Also in
Hamster Day
Three Wishes
Nina Antyukhova
grandmother
Also in
The Fool
The Vampires of Midland
Lyubov Makeeva
music teacher
Known for
We Are from the Future 2
Ivan Sosnin Director · Arsen Baderkhan Composer Ivan Solomatin Cinematographer
First release August 5, 2022 · Produced in Russia · Production ON Media, KION
Production
KIT Film Studio
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ON Media
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KION
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Russia
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Original title
Далёкие близкие
Original language
Russian
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Russian
Release dates
Russia · August 5, 2022
Premiere
Russia · September 29, 2022
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Russia
August 4, 2026 · Premiere · Window To Europe Russian Film Festival
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