Summer Time: Travel Back

Summer Time: Travel Back is a 2022 Russian children's fantasy comedy film directed by Karen Zaharov and Armen Ananikyan.
It was theatrically released on April 28, 2022.

Plot

Four friends, while in the Artek camp, made wishes at the magic tree, as a result of which they ended up in the Crimean Peninsula, the Soviet Union in 1988 and met their parents. To get back, they will have to establish contact with their parents, as quarrels await them in the future.

Cast

Daniil Bolshov as Roma Kovalev
Aleksey Onezhen as Yarik Lebedev
Liza Anokhina as Nikoletta Osipova
Daniil Muravyov-Izotov as Elisey Osipov
Mikhail Galustyan as Sergey Kurochkin in 1988
Ekaterina Klimova as Roma's mother
Sergey Bezrukov as Yura Kovalev, Roma's father
* Vladislav Semiletkov as Yura Kovalev as a child in 1988
Yevgeny Pronin as Igor Lebedev, Yarik's father
* Denis Kucher as Igor Lebedev as a child in 1988
Yan Tsapnik as Yaroslav Lebedev in 1988, Yarik's grandfather
Nadezhda Mikhalkova as Ira Osipova, Nikoletta and Elisey's mother
* Marta Timofeeva as Ira Osipova as a child in 1988
Stanislav Duzhnikov as Vasya Osipov, Nikoletta and Elisey's father
* Yan Alabushev as Vasya Osipov as a child in 1988
Lyudmila Artemyeva as Olga in 1988
Elizaveta Moryak as Elizaveta in 1988

Cameos

Sergey Zhukov
* Endzhel Zhukov as Sergey Zhukov as a child in 1988
Nika Zhukova as a member of a musical group

Production

Principal photography started in early May 2019 at the Artek camp in Crimea, which has been annexed to Russia in 2014 but is internationally recognized as Ukrainian territory. In early June, Sergey Zhukov (musician), the soloist of the group “Hands Up!”, alongside his children Nika and Endzhel, joined the film crew as actors.