The Very Best Day

The Very Best Day
Film poster with original title
Directed by	Zhora Kryzhovnikov
Produced by	Zhora Kryzhovnikov Timur Bekmambetov Alexey Kazakov Sergey Kornikhin
Written by	Zhora Kryzhovnikov Alexey Kazakov
Starring	Dmitry Nagiev Olga Seryabkina Yulia Aleksandrova
Cinematography	Maxim Shinkorenko Ivan Lebedev
Edited by	Alexander Verkholyak
Production company	Bazelevs Company
Release date	2015
Running time	112 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Budget	$2 000 000
Box office	$10 744 717

The Very Best Day (Russian: Самый лучший день) is a Russian comedy film^[1][2][3] directed by Zhora Kryzhovnikov. It is the highest-grossing Russian film of 2015, which raised more than $ 10.5 million at the box office^[4].

Plot

The Provincial Road Officer Petya Vasyutin (Dmitry Nagiev) is going to marry his beloved girl Ole (Julia Alexandrova), but succumbs to the splendor of the capital's pop star Alina Shyopot (Olga Seryabkina). Having got to him drunk at the wheel, she decides to seduce Petya to avoid punishment. Having lost his fiancée, Vasyutin for a long time tries to correct his mistakes and return his beloved.

Cast

• Dmitry Nagiev as Petya Vasyutin
• Olga Seryabkina as Alina Shyopot^[5]
• Yulia Aleksandrova as Olya, Petya's girlfriend
• Sergey Lavygin as Valentin
• Inna Churikova as Lyubov Vasyutina, Petya's mother
• Mikhail Boyarsky as Gennady Vasyutin
• Elena Yakovleva as Tatyana, Olya's mother
• Vladislav Vetrov as Vikenty Mikhailovich
• Yan Tsapnik as Head of road police
• Andrey Malakhov as cameo

Awards and nominations

Golden Eagle Awards 2017

• Elena Yakovleva — Best Supporting Actress (won)

Nika Awards 2017

• Mikhail Boyarsky — Best Supporting Actor (nominated)

References

External links

• The Very Best Day on IMDb