The Mad Empress (2025)
St. Petersburg. Friends Lera, Valya, and Olya perform a mystical ritual for fun, and suddenly Catherine the Great herself materializes in the kitchen amidst the candles. The crowned empress quickly embraces the 21st century: she tries cappuccino, searches for the "Kareta" fare on a taxi app, and that night, she discovers a dance floor with a bang. The friends are delighted, until they notice that reality around them is beginning to shift.
Director: Radda Novikova
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Irina Pegova as |
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Angelina Strechina as |
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Zoya Berber as |
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Alisa Stasyuk as |
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Kirill Zaytsev as |
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Fedor Gamaleya as |
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Ilya Koletsky as |
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Elizaveta Gureeva as |
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Sergey Blednykh as |
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Ilya Staroselsky as |
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Nikita Vladimirov as |
| Directing | Radda Novikova | Director |
| Production | Nikita Vladimirov | Producer |
| Production | Maksim Rogalsky | Producer |
| Production | Vasily Rovensky | Producer |
| Production | Olga Galuzinskaya | Producer |
| Production | Nikolay Artemyev | Producer |
| Production | Konstantin Polikarpov | Producer |
| Production | Igor Strelnikov | Producer |
| Production | Telman Akavov | Producer |
| Production | Oleg Litvinov | Producer |
| Production | Sergey Mikhailov | Producer |
| Production | Alla Nykvist | Executive Producer |
| Production | Elena Kovaleva | Line Producer |
| Sound | Nikolay Kostomarov | Music Producer |
| Writing | Andrey Taratukhin | Writer |
| Writing | Elena Verner | Writer |
| Camera | Andrey Danelyan | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Kazi | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Vladimir Sudakov | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Kseniya Demkina | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Viktoriya Igumnova | Costume Design |
| Editing | Svetlana Maklakova | Editor |