I Am Losing Weight

Plot

The action takes place in Nizhny Novgorod. Anya Kulikova only loves food and her boyfriend - athlete Zhenya. But Zhenya is not pleased with Anya because she has put on a lot of weight and he decides to leave her. But Anya does not give up and sets a goal to get rid of excess weight. And Kolya Barabanov is there to help her, an overweight man obsessed with the healthy way of living.

Cast

Aleksandra Bortich as Anna "Anya" Kulikova

Irina Gorbacheva as Natalia "Natasha"

Yevgeny Kulik as Nikolai "Kolya" Barabanov

Roman Kurtsyn as Yevgeny "Zhenya ", coach for swimming

Elena Valyushkina as Olga, Anya's mom

Mikhail Orlov as Semyon, friend of Olga

Sergey Shnurov as Sergey Kulikov, Anya's father

Anna Kotova as Diana, Sergey's wife

Alexander Ptashenchuk as Dimas, Natasha's husband, DJ

Valeria Dergileva as Christina

Andrey Trushin as fitness instructor

Oleg Kassin as Grisha, combine operator

Anna Ichetokina as laughing woman

Alena Ermolaeva as Alena

Production

Aleksandra Bortich had to gain and lose 20 kg over the course of the making of the film.

The authors of the film offered the main role to Irina Gorbacheva, but she more wanted to play the girlfriend of the main character.

Producer Ilya Naishuller played a smoked guest at a party - for this, he spent the whole shooting day on the couch with a blurred look and a bong in his hands.

Before starting work on the film, director Aleksey Nuzhnyy and screenwriter Nikolay Kulikov lost 28 and 20 kg, respectively.

Work on the script went on for two and a half years. During this time, the authors interviewed a large number of girls and women who are concerned about the topic of losing weight, so that everything in the film is as truthful as possible. There were 17 draft scripts in total.

Filming

The filming period was divided into two blocks. In the first block - May and June 2017 - Aleksandra Bortich was shot in full. After that, there was a break when Aleksandra Bortich switched to strict nutrition and trained 7 days a week. For a month and a half she lost weight and filming resumed.

Aleksandra Bortich herself performed many tricks in the film: she climbed from the balcony to the balcony on the eighth floor, jumped from the pier into the water at a temperature of less than 10 degrees, ran out of the burning bath in a burning sheet.

Criticism

According to film critic Anton Dolin (ru), despite the predictable plot, overkill with views of the city to pop music and the not very appropriate role of Sergey Shnurov, all the "shortcomings are fully paid for by the merits" of the film.

Release

The film was released in the Russian Federation by Universal Pictures International on March 8, 2018.

Reception

The film received mostly positive reviews, acting of Bortich and the script received praise.

Box office

The fees for the first day of rental amounted to 110 million rubles - as of mid-March this is the best achievement among Russian films in 2018, and for the first four days - up to 331 million rubles ($5.8 million), which brought the film to the ninth place of the weekly world rating. By early August, total fees exceeded 630 million rubles ($10 million).