One Hundred Years Ahead (film)

One Hundred Years Ahead, also in English territories titled as Guest from the Future (Сто лет тому вперёд) is a 2024 Russian teen science fiction film directed by Alexander Andryushchenko, loosely based on the 1978 Soviet novel of the same name by Kir Bulychev from the cycle about Alice Selezneva. The main roles was played by Vereshchagina and Eidelstein. The novel was adapted as a five-part television miniseries Guest from the Future made in the Soviet Union, which aired in March 1985.

One Hundred Years Ahead had its world premiere at the Karo 11 October at Arbat Square in Moscow on March 14, 2024, and was released in the Russian Federation on April 18, 2024 by Central Partnership.

Premise
Kolya Gerasimov lives in Post-Soviet modern Moscow, and Alice Selezneva lives 100 years later. Kolya does not think about a future life, and Alice cannot let go of the past. She lost her mother and now she must find her. The meeting of Kolya and Alice will be the beginning of exciting adventures...

Cast

 * Daria Vereshchagina as Alice Selezneva (also tr. Alisa Seleznyova)
 * Mark Eidelstein as Nikolai 'Kolya' Gerasimov
 * Kirill Mitrofanov as Efim 'Fima' Korolev, Kolya Gerasimov's friend and classmate
 * Alexander Petrov as Jolly Man U, a space pirate (also tr. Veselchak U)
 * Yura Borisov as Glot, the villain
 * Viktoriya Isakova as Kira Selezneva / Margarita, Alice Selezneva's mother
 * Konstantin Khabenskiy as Professor Seleznev, Alice Selezneva's father
 * Fyodor Bondarchuk as Robot Werther (voice acting)
 * Sofia Tsibireva as Anastasia 'Nastya' Altukhina, Kolya Gerasimov's classmate
 * Matvey Astrakhantsev as Victor 'Vitya', Nastya Altukhina's boyfriend
 * Maria Maykova-Slidovker as Victoria Gerasimova, Kolya Gerasimov's mother
 * Valentin Moiseev as Kolya Gerasimov's father
 * Lev Zulkarnaev as the space courier

Production
The story was first published in 1978, and four years later the first film adaptation of the work was released in slide show format. The most popular adaptation of the book was Pavel Arsenov’s 5-episode television film Guest from the Future, in which Natalya Murashkevich played the main role.

The producer of the film Invasion, Mikhail Vrubel, first announced his desire to make a film in early January 2020. Initially, Egor Baranov was supposed to become the director of the project, but in the end this post was taken by Alexander Andryushchenko. The cameraman is Mikhail Milashin, the project is produced by Mikhail Vrubel, Fyodor Bondarchuk and Vadim Vereshchagin.

Filming
Principal photography began on November 2, 2022, in Moscow, and the region of Moscow Oblast. At the end of December 2022, the first teaser of the project was published.

Release
One Hundred Years Ahead was scheduled to be theatrically released on December 28, 2023, but was later postponed to April 18, 2024.

Marketing
The first teaser trailer of One Hundred Years Ahead was released on April 18, 2023. This trailer has the most negative rating among all Central Partnership releases, the number of negative ratings of the trailer is approaching fifteen thousand dislikes (4490/14747). For example, the trailer for the movie The Challenge had a ratio of likes and dislikes of 1688 to 1317.

Box office
In the first weekend, the film topped the Russian box office, collecting 309.2 million rubles, it was the sixth best start of 2024 at that time. After the first 10 days of release, the box office exceeded 600 million rubles.