''8 First Dates'' (russian: 8 первых свиданий, 8 pervykh svidaniy; uk, 8 перших побачень, 8 pershykh pobachen') is a 2012 Russian-Ukrainian
romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typic ...
directed by David Dodson and Aleksandr Malyarevsky. It stars Oksana Akinshina and
Volodymyr Zelensky
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, ; russian: Владимир Александрович Зеленский, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelenskyy, (born 25 January 1978; also transliterated as Zelensky or Zelenskiy) is a Ukrainian politicia ...
y.
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.
Volodymyr Zelensky
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, ; russian: Владимир Александрович Зеленский, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelenskyy, (born 25 January 1978; also transliterated as Zelensky or Zelenskiy) is a Ukrainian politicia ...
y as Nikita Sokolov
*Ekaterina Varnava as Ilona
*Denis Nikiforov as Konstantin
* Olesya Zheleznyak as Zinaida Ivanovna, manager
*Yevgeny Koshevoy as taxi driver
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Svetlana Khodchenkova
Svetlana Viktorovna Khodchenkova (russian: Светла́на Ви́кторовна Хо́дченкова; born 21 January 1983) is a Russian people, Russian film, television and theater actress. She is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federati ...
Soso Pavliashvili
Ioseb Raminovich "Soso" Pavliashvili (russian: Иосиф Раминович "Сосо" Павлиашвили, ka, იოსებ რამინის ძე "სოსო" პავლიაშვილი; born 29 June 1964 in Tbilisi) is a ...
as cameo (singer at the festival)
* Gorod 312 as cameo
* Kostya Nakonechny as Kolya
* Igor Jijikine as Kolya's father
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Russian National Movie Awards
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