The two of them skate along the canals and finally realize that they are in love with each other. On Christmas, Matvey, using the fact that Alisa's parents are at the ball, persuades her to go on a date with him. Matvey quarrels with him and goes to live with Alex, who, together with his gang for the winter, huddles in the wreck of an old ship frozen into the ice on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. Matvey's father rejects the money because of the dishonest way his son got it. Although Dmitri Mendeleev himself endorses Alisa's candidacy at the entrance exam, the idea fails, because the consent must be submitted in writing, and Matvey cannot write. Alisa and Matvey meet again and make a deal: Alisa won't reveal Matvey's disguise, but he must give permission for Alisa to enter the Bestuzhev Courses as a student: according to the law of the time, this requires the consent of a male companion or her father. Matvey climbs onto Alisa's balcony where they accidentally stumble upon each other.Īfter some time, Matvey steals two invitations to a ball on ice in the courtyard of the Saint Michael's Castle, where he goes with Alex, posing as aristocrats.Īlisa, as an aristocrat, is also there she is introduced at the ball to the captain of the guard, Count Arkady Trubetskoy, her betrothed. The gang challenges Matvey to steal into the Vyazemsky mansion. Although struggling financially and unable to afford his father's treatment, Matvey trains with the Ice Gang to learn how to pickpocket in order to pay for his father's treatment. At the hospital the doctor tells Matvey that there is a chance of a costly cure for his father in Germany.īy chance, Matvey meets a group of pickpockets led by "Alex" named the Ice Gang, all of whom are fascinated by Marx's ideas about expropriation. At the same time, he discovers that his father has consumption. The tsarist minister Nikolai Vyazemsky's daughter Alisa Vyazemskaya is interested in chemistry and the world of science, but is forced to hide her hobbies from her father, who, like many Russian aristocrats of that time, believes that a woman doesn’t need a higher education at all.Ī few days before the dawn of the 20th century, Matvey loses his job as a deliveryman, because he could not deliver the order on time, as the street enroute was blocked for the Vyazemskys driving along it. He is the fastest thanks to the special silver skates inherited from his father, a lamplighter. Pure-hearted 18-year-old Matvey Polyakov is an ice-skating courier of a local bakery, renowned for his speed. On Christmas Eve, 1899, Imperial Saint Petersburg's frozen rivers and canals transform the capital city into a fairytale-like wonderland, with bustling festivities on the ice. ( December 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by ensuring it covers the whole story, however briefly, and in an encyclopedic style. This plot summary may be a hook or written as if for a listings magazine. The Silver Skates is the first Russian film to be released on the platform in the Netflix Originals category. The rights to the film were acquired by Netflix on June 16, 2021. The film collected more than 100 million rubles for the highest-grossing opening weekend of its film screening and brought the total amount of 490.1 million rubles to the show times, despite the covid epidemic quarantine in Russia, compared to a production budget of 500 million rubles. A limited theatrical release (due to the covid pandemic) was scheduled for December 10, 2020. The Silver Skates was chosen as the opening film of the 42nd Moscow International Film Festival, where it premiered on October 1, 2020. Principal photography lasted from January to May 2019. The film stars Fedor Fedotov and Sofya Priss, alongside Kirill Zaytsev, Yuri Borisov, Aleksei Guskov, Severija Janusauskaite, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Timofey Tribuntsev, and Alexandra Revenko in supporting roles. Social classes mix in this winter wonderland, and the courier Matvey crosses paths with the aristocrat Alisa is an intellectual girl, close to a noble family. The city's ice-covered rivers and canals act as broad avenues, traversed on ice-skates and sleds, with markets and winter festivals on the ice. The story is set in the late 19th century in Saint Petersburg, capital of the Russian Empire. The film is based on the American novel Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge. The Silver Skates ( Russian: Сере́бряные коньки́, romanized: Serebryanye konki) is a 2020 Russian epic period romantic adventure film directed by Michael Lockshin in his feature directorial debut, with a screenplay written by Roman Kantor, and produced by Petr Anurov.
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