Silver Skates
1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century those who should not be destined to meet, come together. They are people from different worlds: Matvey, the son of a lamplighter, whose only treasure is his silver-plated skates; Alice is the daughter of a high-ranking official dreaming of science. Each of them has his own difficult life-story, but having accidentally met they rush forward together in pursuit of their dreams.
- Released: 2020-12-10
- Runtime: 136 minutes
- Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Stars: Fedor Fedotov, Sonia Priss, Aleksey Guskov, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Severija Janušauskaitė, Kirill Zaytsev, Yuriy Borisov, Aleksandra Revenko, Timofey Tribuntsev, Sergey Koltakov, Yan Reshetnikov, Denis Lavant, Cathy Belton, Vasily Kopeikin, Vera Pleshanova, Mikhail Shelomentsev, Dmitry Lysenkov, Arkadiy Koval, Dmitriy Murashev, Valeriy Kukhareshin, Sergey Barkovsky, Denis Pyanov, Elena Rufanova, Sergey Zamorev, Evgeniy Kuzmin, Maxim Khanzhov, Kirill Frolov, Denis Kozinets, Anton Pulit, Aleksey Simonov, Sergey Trifonov, Игорь Павлов, Kirill Baloban, Yakov Petrov, Artyom Leshchik, Valery Smekalov, Tatyana Polonskaya, Egor Bakulin, Yana Pronina, Kirill Yakushenko
- Director: Mikhail Lokshin
Comments
- khemass - 22 September 2023
Grand production of predictable fairytale
The movie is visually impressive with suitable soundtrack. Costume, prop and setting are excellent. The audience will find themselves fascinated by the winter atmosphere of Russia in the old past. It's also fun to watch some boys skating so fast through the market. Also, magnificent cinematography of throughout the whole film.
But that's about it. The story is just plain-old fairy tale: a high-class lady fell for a poor street boy and they somehow found a happy ending together. The girl is really pretty, I admit. The boy looks good together with her. But somehow I think everything is just so predictable and too slow that I even fell asleep half way in the first time watching it.
The movie tries to present feminist theme: woman standing up for herself in a world that prefers men. But so many films have done that and did it better. The final part of the film is so unrealistic, too much of a soapy Hollywood ending. In terms of moral, the boy has never got punished for the crime of stealing he committed. I don't like that at all. It was presented as if rich supposed to get pick-pocketed.
Anyway, if you like grand production and well-created fantasy world. It's fine to watch this one. - gnothon-yelpiscensorship - 7 November 2021
Delightful Artistic Talented Charming Innovative Beautiful Fun
Wonderful story, well cast, well- acted; GREAT art direction; skilled direction; excellent production values, delightful and charming -- skating! Saint Petersburg! Roosians! Thank you -- spaSIba to all!
