Heat / Zhar

2025 | Fiction | 54 min. | Russia

Due to his difficult personality, star chef Mark found himself being kicked out of a prestigious metropolitan restaurant. Furthermore, no one in the restaurant industry wanted to work with him anymore. The only option was to open his own place with a promising chef, whom he had know for one day, and leave all the glitz and glamour of the city behind. While searching for investors, the new partners found themselves in debt with the brutal Serbian mob, and now, in addition to starting a restaurant from the ground up, they needed to protect themselves and their families.

Director: Artyom Aksenenko

Producers: Timur Weinstein, Yuri Sapronov, Nikita Sapronov, Elizaveta Sapronova, and Natalia Lazareva

Сast: Daniil Vorobyov, Anya Chipovskaya, Mark Eidelshtein, Alla Sigalova, Anastasia Mikulchina and Petar Zekavica

Studios: LLC «Ivi.ru» and JSC "World Russian Studios"