Continuing the hugely successful series, Yolki 5 carries on the tradition of the previous films with six stories about different people and different cultures, and how their lives intersect.
Tapping into the Russian tradition of New Year's films, it expresses the ideals of hope, optimism and possibility associated with the New Year. And this time it's international, with each segment taking place in a different country.
Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.
Unlucky lawyer pretends to be a disabled to get a job in the top corporation, which decides to dispossess the Disabled club of its building. Now the lawyer needs to choose between career and a girl from the Disabled club.
The film is set in the 60s of the 20th century, during the Cold War and the space race between USSR and the United States. Russians plan to send a man into space. Military pilot Pavel Belyayev and Alexey Leonov are ready to step into the open space. But on the way they face many obstacles and dangers.
Ivan's only interest has been in cypher codes and malware until he meets a beautiful and hot-tempered French girl. At that the girl turns out to be Russian, and it is not the only surprise in our story.
The strange couple heads to Sochi to take part in the World Chef Championship. Of course, Ivan and Anya happen to be in different teams: she is in a French team and he is in a Russian team.
But Ivan also has to sort out relationships with his father, a famous Chef - Victor Barinov, who has just appeared in his life, to win confidence of his cooking superb team, to avoid arrest for hacking of the website of Ministry of Defense and... to help an anchorman Dmitriy Nagiev to escape from a mountain village in Abkhazia where he is forced to get married.