Hostel (2021 film)

Hostel (Russian: Общага, romanized: Obschaga) is a 2021 Russian teen drama film written and directed by Roman Vasyanov, adaptation of Alexei Ivanov's novel A Hostel on Spilled Blood (ru). It stars Gennady Vyrypaev, Irina Starshenbaum, Marina Vasilyeva, Nikita Yefremov, and Ilya Malanin.^[1][2]

Hostel
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Roman Vasyanov
Written by	Roman Vasyanov Ekaterina Bogomolova Pavel Selukov Darya Selukova Alexei Ivanov
Based on	A Hostel on Spilled Blood by Alexei Ivanov
Produced by	Artyom Vasilyev Igor Mishin
Starring	Gennady Vyrypaev Irina Starshenbaum Marina Vasilyeva Nikita Yefremov Ilya Malanin Yuliya Aug
Cinematography	Aleksandr Aleksandrov
Edited by	Sergey Ivanov
Production companies	Kinopraym Metrafilms Columbia Pictures
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Releasing
Release dates	June 2021 (2021-06) (Shanghai International Film Festival) 2021 (2021) (Russia)
Running time	122 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

It is unrelated to the 2005 American film series of the same name by Sony's subsidiary Screen Gems. The film premiered in June 2021 at the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival.^[3] The premiere took place online on September 26, 2021, at the online cinema Kion (ru) and KinoPoisk HD.

Plot

The film is set in Sverdlovsk in 1984. A group of young people live in a hostel, and suddenly one student commits suicide, which radically changes the lives of friends.^[4]

Cast

• Gennady Vyrypaev as Pavel Zabelin (Zabela), a student
• Irina Starshenbaum as Nelly Karavaeva, a female student
• Marina Vasilyeva as Sveta Leushina, a female student
• Nikita Yefremov as Vanya Simakov, a student
• Ilya Malanin as Igor Kaminsky, a student
• Yuliya Aug as Olga Botova, the commandant of the hostel

Rest of cast listed alphabetically

• Alyona Mikhaylova as Kira Kolesnikova, a female student
• Aleksandr Kudrenko as Renat, Olga's husband, caretaker
• Yevgeny Serzin as Yan Gaponov, Komsomol organizer
• Mariya Ivaschenko as Ira
• Lyubov Konstantinova as Nadya
• Vitaly Isakov as an investigator
• Vladislav Stavropoltsev as Bumagin
• Kseniya Plyusnina as Dasha Gorokhova
• Konstantin Plotnikov as Zhenya Gorokhov
• Tatyana Trudova as Mila
• Kirill Frolov as Generozov
• Anna Levit as a girl

Production

The film was directed by cinematographer Roman Vasyanov, who first appeared in a new capacity. According to him, he had long wanted to take part in the film adaptation of "Hostel on the Blood" (ru) as a cameraman, but due to the lack of a director he decided to take on this function. Vasyanov also became one of the authors of the script.^[5]