Hostel (2021 film)

Hostel (Общага) 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.

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. 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.

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

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.