8 First Dates
{{short description|2012 film by David Dodson and Aleksandr Malyarevsky}}
{{Infobox film
| name = 8 First Dates
| image = 8 First Dates.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = David Dodson
Aleksandr Malyarevsky
| writer = Mikhail Savin
Yuri Kostiuk
Dmitry Grigorenko
Yuri Mikulenko
Timofey Saenko
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Boris Shefir
Sergey Shefir
Andrey Yakovlev
| producer = {{Plainlist|
- Ekaterina Gordetskaya
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy
- Andrey Radko
- Sergey Shefir
- Boris Shefir
}}
| starring = {{Plainlist|
- Oksana Akinshina
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy
- Denis Nikiforov
- Ekaterina Varnava
}}
| cinematography = Bruce Allan Green
| editing = David Dodson
| music = Bryan Carr
| studio = {{Plainlist|
- Central Partnership
- Kvartal 95 Studio
- Production Center GORAD}}
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|2012|03|08|Russia}}
| runtime = 83 minutes
| country = {{Plainlist|
- Russia
- Ukraine}}
| language = Russian
| budget = $2.3 million
| gross = $7,456,577
}}
8 First Dates ({{langx|ru|8 первых свиданий|8 pervykh svidaniy}}; {{langx|uk|8 перших побачень|8 pershykh pobachen'}}) is a 2012 Russian-Ukrainian{{Cite web|date=2012-05-09|title=Кино {{!}} "Студия Квартал-95"|url=http://kvartal95.com/ru/kino/8/|access-date=2020-09-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509133155/http://kvartal95.com/ru/kino/8/|archive-date=2012-05-09}}{{Cite web|date=2020-02-19|title=Ukraine Bans Movies Starring Zelenskiy, Seagal, Depardieu Over National Security Concerns|url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/02/19/ukraine-bans-movies-starring-zelenskiy-seagal-depardieu-over-national-security-a69342|access-date=2020-09-06|website=The Moscow Times|language=en}} romantic comedy film directed by David Dodson and Aleksandr Malyarevsky.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s1BiDwAAQBAJ&q=8+%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D1%8B%D1%85+%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9&pg=PT291
|author=Valentin Trayansky|title=Игроки. Фигуры. Пешки. Секреты великих людей|date=October 2020|publisher=Litres |isbn=9785041199807}} It stars Oksana Akinshina and Volodymyr Zelenskyy alongside Denis Nikiforov and Ekaterina Varnava.{{cite web|url=https://www.vokrug.tv/product/show/8_pervyh_svidanii/|work=VokrugTV|title=8 первых свиданий}}
Plot
Vera and Nikita do not know each other, and the only thing they have in common is the fact that they chose the same place to celebrate their success in their personal lives. Vera is a successful TV presenter of her own talk show and is about to get married, her significant other is Konstantin, a famous tennis player. Nikita is a veterinarian high in demand, who made a marriage proposal to Ilona, a plastic surgeon. Everything is going well for them, they are happy, their friends support their choice, but everything changes one morning when Vera and Nikita wake up in the same bed. Deciding that this is a result of wild fun, they run away in different directions, hoping to forget everything as a bad dream.
But the next morning everything repeats, they wake up again in the same bed, in the same Dream House, although each of them knows for sure that they fell asleep at home. This continues for several more days. Some mysterious forces all the time bring them together, ruining their privacy, or perhaps indicating that they are made for each other.
Cast
- Oksana Akinshina as Vera Kazantseva
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy as Nikita Sokolov{{cite web|url=https://www.kinopoisk.ru/article/1837518/|title=Владимир Зеленский: Животные и дети ничего не прощают|work=KinoPoisk}}
- Denis Nikiforov as Konstantin
- Ekaterina Varnava as Ilona
- Olesya Zheleznyak as Zinaida Ivanovna, manager
- Yevgeny Koshevoy as taxi driver
- Svetlana Khodchenkova as passenger in a taxi
- Victor Vasilyev as Alexey
- Soso Pavliashvili as cameo (singer at the festival)
- Gorod 312 as cameo
- Kostya Nakonechny as Kolya
- Igor Jijikine as Kolya's father
- Yelena Kondulainen as Vera's mother
Awards
In 2013, the film received the Russian National Movie Awards as the Best Russian Comedy of the Year.{{cite web|url=http://www.national-movie-awards.ru/photos/ceremony-2013/550/|title=Церемония награждения "Жорж 2013"|work=national-movie-awards.ru|access-date=2019-02-10|archive-date=2023-03-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326121713/http://www.national-movie-awards.ru/photos/ceremony-2013/550/|url-status=dead}}
2020 ban
In 2020, 8 First Dates was banned by the Ukrainian State Film Agency because one of its actresses, Ekaterina Varnava, visited Crimea during the Russian occupation to attend a comedy show in 2016. She was then blacklisted for five years.{{cite news|title=Ukraine Bans Zelenskiy Film Over Inclusion Of Russian Co-Star|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-bans-zelenskiy-filmrussian-actress/30443431.html|newspaper=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|date=19 February 2020|access-date=3 July 2023|author=Current Time}}
References
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External links
{{Portal|Film}}
- {{IMDb title|id=tt2258239}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120509133155/http://kvartal95.com/ru/kino/8/ 8 First Dates] on Kvartal-95 Studio
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Category:2010s Russian-language films
Category:2012 romantic comedy films
Category:Film censorship in Ukraine
Category:Films about veterinarians
Category:Russian romantic comedy films
Category:Russian-language romantic comedy films
Category:Russian-language Ukrainian films
Category:Ukrainian romantic comedy films