
Piter FM () is a 2006 Russian
romantic comedy-drama
Comedy drama (also known by the portmanteau dramedy) is a hybrid genre of works that combine elements of comedy and Drama (film and television), drama. In film, as well as scripted television series, serious dramatic subjects (such as death, il ...
film directed by
Oksana Bychkova and starring Ekaterina Fedulova, Yevgeny Tsyganov and Alexey Barabash. The plot revolves around the serendipitous and unexpected romance between a young man and woman living in
St. Petersburg.
Plot
Masha is a young woman working for a popular
St. Petersburg radio station as a
DJ. Maksim is a young man with a degree in architecture who has moved to St. Petersburg from
Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət, t=Lower Newtown; colloquially shortened to Nizhny) is a city and the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast an ...
and who works part-time as a street sweeper. Although Masha and Maksim have never met, they share a common trait: both have a tendency to be clumsy in daily life, always dropping and spilling things. Each is also at a crossroads in their lives. Masha is getting ready to marry her old schoolmate, Kostya, while Maksim has just won an international architecture competition and is preparing to move to Germany for a new job.
Masha accidentally bumps into somebody in a crowd and drops her cell phone while Maksim happens to pick it up. He wants to return it, but each time they try to meet, something happens to waylay their plans. The two keep ending up in the same places, but not knowing what the other looks like, they keep unwittingly passing by each other. In the meantime, Masha begins to realize that she is not in love with Kostya and agreeing to marry him was a rash decision on her part, while Maksim starts to think that he would rather live in St. Petersburg than move to Germany.
Cast
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Ekaterina Fedulova as Masha
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Yevgeny Tsyganov as Maksim
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Alexey Barabash as Kostya
* Irina Rakhmanova as Lera
* Natalya Reva-Ryadinskaya as Marina
* Oleg Dolin as Fedor
* Yevgeny Kulakov as Vitya
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Kirill Pirogov as Gleb
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Aleksandr Bashirov as building manager
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Vladimir Mashkov as man in slippers
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Tatyana Kravchenko as Tatyana Petrovna
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Pavel Barshak as guy with flowers
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Andrey Krasko man in shorts
Reception
Piter FM received generally positive reviews.
Awards
Piter FM was nominated for 6 different awards at the
MTV Russia Movie Awards, 2007.
References
External links
Official Website
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2006 films 2000s Russian films
2000s Russian-language films
2006 romantic comedy-drama films
Russian romantic comedy-drama films