Ot 180 i vyshe (2005)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Director:

Aleksandr Strizhenov

Writer:

Aleksandr Strizhenov (writer)

Release Date:

24 March 2005 (Russia)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Administrator of a Fitness-Club Kostya thinks that having a woman taller than 180sm by a man's side is a symbol of his prosperity and success...

Cast

Darya Korepanova	...	Anechka
Ekaterina Guseva	...	Oksana
Ekaterina Teyze	...	Niyole
Ekaterina Malikova	...	Olya
Yekaterina Strizhenova	...	Vera
Ksenia Knyazeva	...	Nastya, Antiglobalist
Ekaterina Khlystova	...	Katya - Police Lt.
Yevgeni Stychkin	...	Kostik
Ivan Urgant	...	Anton
Yuriy Kutsenko	...	Alik (as Gosha Kutsenko)
Fyodor Bondarchuk	...	Savik
Evklid Kyurdzidis	...	Zurik
Maksim Lagashkin	...	Yarik
Olga Pavlovets	...	Zhenka
Kris Karl	...	'Boss', Antiglobalist

Also Known As:

От 180 и выше (Russia)
From 180 & Taller (International: English title) (informal title)

Runtime:

104 min

Country:

Russia

Language:

Russian

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Moscow, Russia

One of the greatest Russian films I've ever seen

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I was actually surprised by this movie and by the fabulous storyline of it. I seem to notice that Russian directors are getting better and better keeping in mind such films as 9 rota, Nochnoj Dozor and Zhmurky. The story tells about a short guy who woks at sports centre as administrator and dreams about having sex with tall women, as if only they would possess something marvelous that he himself being short lacks. He has a girlfriend no taller than himself and somewhat considers her as second-class not only because she is short but also being the only girlfriend he has ever had. He keeps whining about his miserable state to his tall friend, who suggests him to take action himself and they make somewhat a bet, that at midnight 'cinderella becomes a pumpkin'. So the short guy goes to his work and searches for the phone numbers of all tall and beautiful girls that he considers had been nice to him. And then there is a different story about each girl or woman he phones. Two of them are fashion models who seem to be rather vain and easy going, one has an incredibly jealous ex-husband, who beats her, one appears to be an actually very shy and childish virgin girl, another, which was considered as a shy girl comes up being a prostitute. The last girl is most interesting: she somewhat tries to protest against her beauty, politics and the whole world surrounding her. Each and every one of them represents an incredibly felicitously portrayed personality. The drama in each characters life is represented in such an astonishing lifelike way, so that it Really touches you, not as in those cheesy American dramas that I have seen recently. I strongly recommend not to miss this masterpiece of Russian directing and great acting!