I Am Losing Weight

I Am Losing Weight
Official Poster
Directed by Aleksey Nuzhnyy
Produced by
  • Sergey Kornikhin
  • Nikolay Kulikov
  • Aleksey Nuzhnyy
  • Alena Kremer
  • Ekaterina Kononenko
  • Ilya Naishuller
Screenplay by
  • Nikolay Kulikov
  • Aleksey Nuzhnyy
  • Konstantin Mayer
Starring
Music by Dmitriy Lanskoy
Dmitriy Emelyanov
Cinematography Kirill Klepalov
Edited by Avet Oganesnyan
Production
company
Film Studio "Each Other"
Release date
  • March 8, 2018 (2018-03-08) (Russia)
[1]
Running time
 102 minutes
Country Russia
Language Russian
Box office $5.8 million[2]

I Am Losing Weight (Russian: Я худею, translit. Ya khudeyu) is a 2018 Russian comedy film directed by Aleksey Nuzhnyy. The premiere of the film in Russia took place on March 8, 2018, the gross for the first day of the rental amounted to 1.9 million dollars - as of mid-March this was the best achievement among Russian films of 2018,[3] and for the first four days - up to 5.8 million dollars, which brought the film to the ninth place of the weekly world ranking.[2][4]

Plot

Anya only loves food and her boyfriend - athlete Zhenya. But Zhenya is not pleased with Anya because she has put on a lot of weight and he decides to leave her. But Anya does not give up and sets a goal to get rid of excess weight. And Nikolai is there to help her, an overweight man obsessed with the healthy way of living.

Cast

  • Aleksandra Bortich – Anna Kulikova
  • Irina Gorbacheva – Natasha
  • Yevgeny Kulik – Nikolai Barabanov
  • Roman Kurtsyn – Yevgeny, coach for swimming
  • Elena Valyushkina – Olga, Anna's mother
  • Mikhail Orlov – Semyon, friend of Olga
  • Sergey Shnurov – Sergey Kulikov, Anna's father
  • Anna Kotova – Diana, Sergey's wife
  • Alexander Ptashenchuk – Dimas, Natasha's husband, DJ
  • Valeria Dergileva – Christina
  • Andrey Trushin – fitness instructor
  • Oleg Kassin – Grisha, combine operator
  • Anna Ichetokina – laughing woman
  • Alena Ermolaeva – Alena

Production

Aleksandra Bortich had to gain and lose 20kg over the course of the making of the film.[5]

Reception

The film received mostly positive reviews, acting of Bortich and the script received praise.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Новый постер и трейлер фильма «Я худею»". The Hollywood Reporter.
  2. 1 2 Феликс Зилич (2018-03-13). "Мировой бокс-офис: Я худею и попадаю в десятку". Кинопоиск. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
  3. ↑ Max Stepanov. "Худей правильно — Комедия «Я худею» стала лидером проката России". gazeta.ru.
  4. ↑ "Комедия "Я худею" идёт на великолепный результат около 330 млн рублей в премьерный уик-энд". KinoBusiness.
  5. ↑ "22-летняя актриса Александра Бортич поправилась на 20 килограммов ради роли". Cosmopolitan.
  6. ↑ "Я худею". Kritikanstvo.
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