Extraordinary (2024)
Eight-year-old Nikolai suffers from a congenital illness that leaves him unable to walk or speak. His doctors and even his own mother, Tatyana, have given up hope of treating his ailment. When Tatyana’s new friend Yuri tries using his own physiotherapy techniques to treat Nikolai, he discovers that Nikolai has a gift for music and teaches him to play the piano. With every note he learns and every melody he masters, Nikolai’s condition improves. He not only gains mobility, he also becomes an outstanding musician. Nikolai and Yuri travel to China together to take part in a piano competition, with a view to taking the grand prize. This is a humor-packed story about the healing power of music and fatherly love.
Director:
Ilya Malanin
Writers:
Sergey Kozin, Roman Kantor.
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Aleksandr Yatsenko as Yuri |
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Illarion Marov as Kolya |
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Xu Shiyue as Anna |
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Natalya Kudryashova as Tatyana |
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Elisey Svezhentsev as Kolya v detstve |
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Nadezhda Markina as Ekaterina Vasilevna |
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Boris Kamorzin as Direktor muzykalnoy shkoly |
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Artyom Bocharov as Violonchelist |
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Marina Kleshcheva as Tyotya Raya |
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Nina Antyukhova as Zhenshina v Apteke |
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Antonina Boyko as Lena |
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Olga Kalashnikova as Svetka |
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Valentin Samokhin as Semyon Petrovich |
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Egor Nikolaenko as Kislyi |
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Larisa Negreeva-Tseslyak as Zhenshina v Apteke 2 |
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Tatyana Gorodeckaya as Zhenshina v Apteke 3 |
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Denis Davydov as Uchenik muzykalnoy shkoly |
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Ekaterina Smirnova as Lidia Petrovna |
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Aleksey Kolubkov as Glavvrach |
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Anastasiya Imamova as Irina |
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Aleksandr Golubkov as Valentin |
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Valeriy Skorokosov as Kapitan |
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Dmitry Zhirov as Slavka |
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Sergey Kuzmintsev as Mikhail, drug Yuriya |
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Andrey Bulatov as Dubler-pianist |
| Camera | Vasily Grigolyunas | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Sergey Kozin | Screenplay |
| Production | Grigory Stoyalov | Producer |
| Production | Petr Anurov | Producer |
| Writing | Roman Kantor | Screenplay |
| Directing | Ilya Malanin | Director |
| Production | Vadim Vereshchagin | Producer |
| Art | Timofey Ryabushinsky | Production Design |
| Visual Effects | Ilya Toropov | VFX Supervisor |
| Sound | Alexey Chintsov | Sound Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Aleksandra Vakhranyova | Makeup Artist |
| Crew | Anton Smekalkin | Stunt Coordinator |
| Visual Effects | Aleksandra Mityushova | Visual Effects Producer |
| Visual Effects | Aleksandr Gorshkov | VFX Supervisor |
| Directing | Ekaterina Laposhina | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Tatyana Grigoryeva | First Assistant Director |
| Production | Ludmila Ulyakhina | Casting |
| Costume & Make-Up | Darya Fomina | Costume Design |
| Editing | Mariya Likhacheva | Editor |