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| Алиса в Стране чудес | |
| Directed by | Yury Khmelnitsky |
| Screenplay by | Karina Chuvikova |
| Story by | Lewis Carroll |
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| Cinematography | Andrey Ivanov |
| Edited by | Anna Krutiy |
| Music by | Vladislav Saratovkin |
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| Distributed by | Central Partnership |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
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Alice in Wonderland (Russian:Алиса в Стране чудес,romanized: Alisa v Strane chudes) is a 2025 Russianchildren'smusical film directed by Yury Khmelnitsky, loosely based on the 1865 Englishnovel of the same name byLewis Carroll and the 1976 Soviet radio play byVladimir Vysotsky.[1]
Alice in Wonderland had its world premiere at theKaro 11 October atArbat Square inMoscow on October 21, 2025,[2] and was released in Russia on October 23, 2025 byCentral Partnership.[3]
Alice, a 15-year-old Russian schoolgirl, fails herBasic State Exam maths exam, and the boy she likes gets into a fight. At home, her parents are arguing because of her. Heading to the park, Alice meets theWhite Rabbit who steals her watch. And then she finds herself in magicalWonderland, where the sun is always in zenith.
In this world, the schoolgirl sees many people who resemble her friends and family. But they don't recognize her, for they are "antipodes". More importantly, she has entered a world where time has stopped — and only she can restart it. This is something the cunningDuchess intends to exploit.
Alice in Wonderland is a modern adaptation of a children's audio play based on the poems of Vladimir Vysotsky, inspired by the Lewis Carroll fairy tale of the same name. The musical fairy tale was released in 1976 on two records. Vysotsky spent more than three years creating it.[4]
The production of the fabulous film was carried out by the Mediaslovo company with the participation ofGazprom-Media Holding and the KION online cinema.
Alice Koroleva will be played byAnna Peresild, the daughter of actressYulia Peresild and filmmakerAlexei Uchitel. She was remembered by viewers for her role as Aigul Akhmerova in the acclaimed TV seriesThe Boy's Word: Blood on the Asphalt.
Principal photography began in September 2024, using large-scale sets atMosfilm inMoscow,Sochi, with some locations inAbkhazia.
The film received mixed reviews. According to the review aggregatorKritikanstvo, the average score from Russian publications was 49 out of 100 (based on 15 reviews).[5] It was praised by critics fromVokrug TV, heavily criticized by reviewers fromAfisha,Gazeta.Ru, andKommersant, whileArguments and Facts,Komsomolskaya Pravda,Nezavisimaya Gazeta,Novaya Gazeta, andRossiyskaya Gazeta gave it average ratings.
In a review forKomsomolskaya Pravda, Denis Korsakov stated that "the authors' overarching goal was to out-BurtonBurton, which is whyAlice is stuffed with various wonders (the main attraction being a snow avalanche frozen on a mountainside that starts rushing downward as soon as Alice puts on a watch). There's also a multitude of characters that would have made Lewis Carroll simply grunt in disbelief".[6]
Svyatoslav Letskiy, a reviewer forChampionat.com [ru], noted that "Alice in Wonderland is also a musical film. Key thoughts, unresolved problems, and character portrayals are primarily revealed through musical numbers".[7]
Pavel Voronkov, a correspondent forGazeta.Ru, pointed out that the film is an adaptation of a Soviet-era radio play by Oleg Gerasimov based on the story, featuring songs byVladimir Vysotsky. He remarked that "only fragments remain of Gerasimov and Vysotsky'sAlice. The transition from the highly abstract realm of sound to the screen — into an audiovisual environment striving for literalness — is inherently a harsh and merciless process, but the current epidemic of shoddy film fairy tales has completely ravaged the radio play".[4]
