Petrov's Flu

With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in a country where the past is never past, the present is a booze-fueled, icy fever dream of violence and tenderness, and where – beneath layers of the ordinary – things turn out to be extraordinary.

Cast

Semyon Serzin

as Petrov

Chulpan Khamatova

as Petrova

Vladislav Semiletkov

as Petrov's son

Yuri Kolokolnikov

as Igor

Aleksandr Ilyin Jr

as Viktor Mikhailovich

Nikolay Kolyada

as GAZelle driver

Yura Borisov

as Sasha/Father Frost

Yulia Peresild

as Marina/Snow-maiden

Olga Voronina

as Lida/Pioneer/Old woman/Poetess/Middle-aged damsel/Broadcaster/Drunk woman

Semen Shteinberg

as Gera/Snowman/Journalist/Athlete/Caucasus native/The mean one

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