A Rough Draft

A Rough Draft is a 2018 Russian science fiction film directed by Sergey Mokritskiy, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Sergei Lukyanenko and starring Nikita Volkov, Yulia Peresild and Yevgeny Tsyganov. It was released in Russia on May 25, 2018. Plot A young resident of Moscow, Kirill is a talented designer of computer games. One day, he is completely erased from the memory of everyone he knew and loved. Kirill learns that he is chosen for an important and mysterious mission. His purpose is to become a customs officer between parallel worlds, of which there are dozens in the universe. Kirill learns to open the portals to a variety of parallel worlds which represent alternative versions of Moscow: a steampunk Imperial Russia, a post-apocalyptic tropic resort world, a dystopian Gulag world, and a highly advanced utopian world. Over time, Kirill learns that our Earth is a rough draft, a setting for social experiments secretly staged by the government of the utopian world, in order to avoid our mistakes. Learning this, Kirill rebels against his supervisors. Cast Nikita Volkov as Kirill Maksimov Yevgeny Tkachuk as Kotya Chagin Olga Borovskaya as Anna Yulia Peresild as Rose White Severija Janušauskaitė as Renata Ivanova Yevgeny Tsyganov as Anton Elena Yakovleva as Kirill's mother Andrey Rudensky as Kirill's father Andrey Merzlikin as Felix Irina Khakamada as Irina, politician Sergei Lukyanenko as the train passenger