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Happy New Year, Daddy!

2004 · 89 min

A gentle, good-natured holiday comedy that coasts on warmth and light laughs rather than surprises.

Directed by
Olga Perunovskaya
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Starring
Pavel Melenchuk, Dmitriy Orlov, Olga Ponizova
Overview
A boy is asking Santa for a very unusual New Year present - a dad!

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Directed by
Olga Perunovskaya
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Starring
Pavel Melenchuk, Dmitriy Orlov, Olga Ponizova
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • love
  • parenthood
  • healing
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour6
Realism6
Romance5
Tension2
Darkness2
Complexity2
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy, romance
Directed by
Olga Perunovskaya
Written by
Vadim Golovanov, Olga Perunovskaya, Yuriy Patrenin
Starring
Pavel Melenchuk, Dmitriy Orlov, Olga Ponizova, Sergey Yushkevich, Michael Janibekyan
Runtime
89 min
Country
Russia
Languages
Russian

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