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Holiday

Holiday (Russian: Праздник, romanized: Prazdnik) is a 2019 Russian comedy film written and directed by Alexey Krasovsky. Initially the premiere of the film was scheduled to take place on December 31, 2018, on the personal YouTube channel of the director. But after the Magnitogorsk apartment block collapse, which left multiple victims, the release was postponed to January 3, 2019.

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The Voskresensky family is on special security in late 1941, and despite the Siege of Leningrad is not starving. Since the head of the family, the scientist Georgy Voskresensky, fulfills an important government task, the family's place of residence is a secret.
Until recently they were served by a cook, but on the eve of the film's action the cook has been taken away. The family is going to celebrate the new year of 1942 in their country house. They have a raw chicken, but there is no one to cook it. Denis, the younger son of Voskresensky, invites a hungry girl, Masha, to their celebration. Liza, the eldest daughter, invites a man, Vitaly, whom she says she is about to marry. The family must first hide their wealth from the guests, and then enter into some kind of agreement with them.
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