Five friends decide to go to the top of a mountain on New Year’s Eve. They walk up to the gondola carrying a lighted Christmas tree and a box full of beer, along with their snowboards.
Kirill paid the lift operator to stay late so they can be on the mountain at midnight. However they arrive later than expected and the operator threatens to leave if they don’t immediately get on the lift. Kirill can’t find his bag and refuses to go, demanding that his girlfriend get out of the car. The others think he’s being stupid and they stay on the gondola leaving Kirill behind.
Half way up the gondola stops due to an accident at the station. The group assumes the issue will shortly be fixed and spend the night in the car. In the morning, when there is still no sign of help or an operating gondola, they try to figure out a way to get help. Of course this is when we start seeing what people are truly made of and there’s always one coward in every group, well at least in movies anyway.
I don’t know how I got this idea in my head, but when I watched the preview I thought it was a horror movie and someone was shooting at them while they were trapped in a gondola. So I was expecting a whole different film. This is a Russian film and it’s dubbed. I prefer to watch foreign films in their original language because the inflections in the dubbing are usually horrendous. But this one didn’t seem that bad.
This is similar to the movie Frozen, where three college students pay a chair lift operator to let them go on a late night run after the mountain has closed and get stuck on the chair lift in a blizzard. The lesson in both being don’t go to places after they close because if something goes wrong, no one will ever come looking for you.
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