A Rough Draft (russian: Черновик, Chernovik) is a 2018 Russian

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directed by Sergey Mokritskiy, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Sergei Lukyanenko and starring

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and Yevgeny Tsyganov. It was released in Russia on May 25, 2018.

Plot

A young resident of Moscow, Kirill is a talented designer of computer games. One day, he is completely erased from the memory of everyone he knew and loved. Kirill learns that he is chosen for an important and mysterious mission. His purpose is to become a customs officer between parallel worlds, of which there are dozens in the universe. Kirill learns to open the portals to a variety of parallel worlds which represent alternative versions of Moscow: a

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, a post-apocalyptic tropic resort world, a

dystopia A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ- "bad, hard" and τόπος "place"; alternatively cacotopiaCacotopia (from κακός ''kakos'' "bad") was the term used by Jeremy Bentham in his 1818 Plan of Parliamentary Reform (Works, vol. 3, p. 493). ...

n Gulag world, and a highly advanced utopian world. Over time, Kirill learns that our Earth is a rough draft, a setting for social experiments secretly staged by the government of the utopian world, in order to avoid our mistakes. Learning this, Kirill rebels against his supervisors.

Cast

as Kirill Maksimov * Yevgeny Tkachuk as Kotya Chagin * Olga Borovskaya as Anna *

as Rose White * Severija Janušauskaitė as Renata Ivanova * Yevgeny Tsyganov as Anton * Elena Yakovleva as Kirill's mother * Andrey Rudensky as Kirill's father * Andrey Merzlikin as Felix * Irina Khakamada as Irina, politician * Sergei Lukyanenko as the train passenger

Critical reception

Although the film was one of the most anticipated Russian releases of 2018, it received generally negative reviews from professional critics, receiving 32% on KinoPoisk. The majority of criticism was focused on CGI, acting and an incomprehensible storyline. Critics also panned the film for its changes from the novel.Рецензии на фильм «Черновик» (2018)
/ref>Черновик (2018) — отзывы о фильме зрителей и критиков
/ref> Observer of Kommersant Mikhail Trofimenkov in his review notes that by multiplying the fantasy worlds above the necessary number, the authors doomed the film to madness of entropy. Equally helpless, in the opinion of the author, is the actor's work. Critic Alexey Lytovchenko (

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) wrote that in some places it is impossible to differentiate the characters and understand their motives. ''А Rough Draft'' underperformed in the box office.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rough Draft, A 2010s science fiction films Russian science fiction action films Films based on science fiction novels Films based on Russian novels Films set in Moscow Films shot in Moscow Films about parallel universes Columbia Pictures films