Hostel

Hostel 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