One Hundred Years Ahead (film)

Not to be confused with Guest from the Future.

One Hundred Years Ahead
English	Guest from the Future
Directed by	Alexander Andryushchenko
Written by	Andrey Zolotarev Alexander Andryushchenko Ksenia Miroshnik
Story by	Kir Bulychyov
Based on	One Hundred Years Ahead (ru) by Kir Bulychev
Produced by	Mikhail Vrubel Alexander Andryushchenko Fyodor Bondarchuk Denis Baglai Vadim Vereschagin Anton Zlatopolsky Vyacheslav Murugov Yuliana Slashcheva Antonina Lee Pavel Gorin Elena Bystrova Daria Chigirinova
Starring	Daria Vereshchagina Mark Eidelstein Kirill Mitrofanov Alexander Petrov Yura Borisov Viktoriya Isakova Konstantin Khabenskiy Fyodor Bondarchuk
Cinematography	Mikhail Milashin
Edited by	Alexey Starchenko Alexander Puzyryov
Music by	Igor Vdovin
Production companies	Vodorod Film Company Art Pictures Studio Central Partnership Productions Russia-1 National Media Group Okko (online cinema) Soyuzmultfilm Cinema Fund
Distributed by	Central Partnership
Release dates	April 14, 2024 (2024-04-14) (Karo 11 October) April 18, 2024 (2024-04-18) (Russia)
Running time	142 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Budget	₽900 million
Box office	₽1.428 billion $15.6 million

One Hundred Years Ahead, also in English territories titled as Guest from the Future (Russian: Сто лет тому вперёд) is a 2024 Russian teen science fiction film directed by Alexander Andryushchenko, loosely based on the 1978 Soviet novel of the same name by Kir Bulychev from the cycle about Alice Selezneva. The main roles was played by Vereshchagina and Edelstein. The novel was adapted as a five-part television miniseries Guest from the Future made in the Soviet Union, which aired in March 1985.

One Hundred Years Ahead had its world premiere at the Karo 11 October at Arbat Square in Moscow on March 14, 2024, and was released in the Russian Federation on April 18, 2024 by Central Partnership.

Premise

Kolya Gerasimov lives in Post-Soviet modern Moscow, and Alice Selezneva lives 100 years later. Kolya does not think about a future life, and Alice cannot let go of the past. She lost her mother and now she must find her. The meeting of Kolya and Alice will be the beginning of exciting adventures...

Cast

• Daria Vereshchagina as Alice Selezneva (also tr. Alisa Seleznyova)
• Mark Eidelstein as Nikolai 'Kolya' Gerasimov
• Kirill Mitrofanov as Efim 'Fima' Korolev, Kolya Gerasimov's friend and classmate
• Alexander Petrov as Jolly Man U, a space pirate (also tr. Veselchak U)
• Yura Borisov as Glot, the villain
• Viktoriya Isakova as Kira Selezneva / Margarita, Alice Selezneva's mother
• Konstantin Khabenskiy as Professor Seleznev
• Fyodor Bondarchuk as Robot Werther (voice acting)
• Sofia Tsibireva as Anastasia 'Nastya' Altukhina, Kolya Gerasimov's classmate
• Matvey Astrakhantsev as Victor 'Vitya', Nastya Altukhina's boyfriend
• Maria Maykova-Slidovker as Victoria Gerasimova, Kolya Gerasimov's mother
• Valentin Moiseev as Kolya Gerasimov's father

Production

The story was first published in 1978, and four years later the first film adaptation of the work was released in slide show format. The most popular adaptation of the book was Pavel Arsenov’s 5-episode television film Guest from the Future, in which Natalya Murashkevich played the main role.

The producer of the film Invasion (2020 film), Mikhail Vrubel, first announced his desire to make a film in early January 2020. Initially, Egor Baranov was supposed to become the director of the project, but in the end this post was taken by Alexander Andryushchenko. The cameraman is Mikhail Milashin, the project is produced by Mikhail Vrubel, Fyodor Bondarchuk and Vadim Vereshchagin.

Filming

Principal photography began on November 2, 2022, in Moscow, and the region of Moscow Oblast. At the end of December 2022, the first teaser of the project was published.

Release

One Hundred Years Ahead was scheduled to be theatrically released on December 28, 2023, but was later postponed to April 18, 2024.

Marketing

The first teaser trailer of One Hundred Years Ahead was released on April 18, 2023. This trailer has the most negative rating among all Central Partnership releases, the number of negative ratings of the trailer is approaching fifteen thousand dislikes (4490/14747). For example, the trailer for the movie The Challenge had a ratio of likes and dislikes of 1688 to 1317.

Reception

Box office

In the first weekend, the film topped the Russian box office, collecting 309.2 million rubles, it was the sixth best start of 2024 at that time. After the first 10 days of release, the box office exceeded 600 million rubles.

External links

• One Hundred Years Ahead at IMDb