The Good Boy

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2026}} {{Infobox film |name = The Good Boy |image = The_Good_Boy.jpg |director = Oksana Karas |starring = Semyon Treskunov Mikhail Yefremov Konstantin Khabensky Anastasia Bogatyryov Ieva Andreevajte |runtime = 95 minutes |country = Russia |producer = Vasiliy Solovyov Fyodor Bondarchuk Anna Peskova Dmitri Rudovskiy Yuri Khrapov |screenplay = Mikhail Mestetsky Roman Kantor |music = Mikhail Morskov Artyom Fedotov band NEOPOLEON |cinematography = Suzanna Musaeva |studio = 2D Celluloid, Art Pictures Studios Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |distributor = WDSSPR |released = {{Film date|2016|11|10|df=y}} }} '''''The Good Boy''''' ({{langx|ru|Хороший мальчик|Khoroshiy malchik}}) is a 2016 Russian comedy film directed by Oksana Karas.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ria.ru/analytics/20161115/1481388850.html|publisher=RIA Novosti|title="Хороший мальчик": феномен нормального кино}}</ref> The picture won the Grand Prix of the 27th Kinotavr.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kinotavr.ru/ru/2016/winners-27/|publisher=Kinotavr|title=Призеры XXVII Открытого Российского кинофестиваля "Кинотавр"}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gazeta.ru/culture/2016/06/13/a_8305595.shtml#|publisher=gazeta.ru|title="Хороший мальчик", "Зоология" и другие победители "Кинотавра"|author=Yaroslav Zabaluev}}</ref> It was released on 10 November 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thr.ru/cinema/novyj-trejler-horosij-malcik-s-konstantinom-habenskim-i-mihailom-efremovym/|work=The Hollywood Reporter|title=Новый трейлер: "Хороший мальчик" с Константином Хабенским и Михаилом Ефремовым}}</ref>

==Plot== The film depicts six days from the life of ninth-grader Kolya Smirnov (Semyon Treskunov).

Kolya falls in love with his teacher (Ieva Andreevajte). Someone sets fire to the school's additional building which contained the new computers.

The principal's daughter, high school student Ksyusha (Anastasia Bogatyryova), in turn falls in love with Kolya and is under the impression that Kolya was the one who set the school on fire.

Kolya's father Alexander (Konstantin Khabensky) makes the family transition to the 12/36 system – this means twelve hours for sleep and thirty-six hours for staying awake, which does not allow the protagonist to sleep or even to collect thoughts.

==Cast== *Semyon Treskunov – Kolya Smirnov *Mikhail Yefremov – Vladimir Dronov *Konstantin Khabensky – Alexander Smirnov *Anastasia Bogatyryova – Ksysha Dronova *Ieva Andreevajte – Alisa Denisovna *Aleksandr Pal — Stanislav Ilyich

==Production== Semyon Treskunov auditioned for the film ''The Good Boy'' for the first time when he was 11, and this was the third casting in his life.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo26PDjYhU4|title=Семён Трескунов о кастинге на главную роль в фильме "Хороший мальчик"|author=|date=17 August 2015|publisher=2D Celluloid}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://cinemotionlab.com/novosti/02692-semen_treskunov_o_semkah_v_horoshem_malchike_rezhisser_daet_mne_polnuyu_svobodu/|title=Семён Трескунов: "Режиссёр даёт мне полную свободу"|date=25 September 2015|publisher=Cinemotion|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205053141/http://www.cinemotionlab.com/novosti/02692-semen_treskunov_o_semkah_v_horoshem_malchike_rezhisser_daet_mne_polnuyu_svobodu/|archivedate=2016-02-05|url-status=dead}}</ref> At that time he was too young for this role. Because of problems with financing, the launching of the preparatory period was repeatedly postponed and by the time investors appeared Treskunov had grown to the age required by the scenario.<ref>{{cite video|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcS4DjcZU94|title="Новые и хорошо знакомые имена». Репортаж со съёмок фильма «Хороший мальчик"|author=|date=30 September 2015|publisher=Channel One Russia|accessdate=|lang=}}</ref><ref>{{cite video|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICwBetsAmec|title="Фильм о каждом». Репортаж со съёмочной площадки фильма «Хороший мальчик"|author=Marina Kvaratskheliya|date=2 October 2015|work=|publisher=LifeNews}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|tt5358714}} *[http://goodboyfilm.ru/ Official website]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Good Boy, The}} Category:Russian teen comedy films Category:2010s coming-of-age comedy films Category:2010s teen comedy films Category:2010s high school films Category:Russian coming-of-age comedy films Category:2016 comedy films Category:Films produced by Fyodor Bondarchuk