Director · 2012 · Short · Comedy · City Stories · 28m · Russian

It Seems…

Name: It Seems…
Director: Oleksandr (Sasha) Poberailo
Genre: Comedy, Short, Romance, City Stories, Ukrainian cinema
Released: 2012
Duration: 28 min
Cast: Max Lavrinenko, Ekaterina Naumenko and others, Kostya Chernysh

Кажется это…

Logline

Get ten girls in a month — street pickup for aces only. Maxim is one of them; days left, and only one girl short of the bet.

Synopsis

It Seems… (Кажется это…; Vimeo EN title “It seems like”) is a City Stories pickup comedy: Maxim, a practised street pick-up artist, chases a monthly quota of ten women. Vimeo card logline: “Get ten girls in the past month — a force of only aces street pickup. Maxim one of them, but not the only one. You’re just a few days before the end of the bet and just one girl.” Comic city approaches, night and day streets, glass-and-bench evenings, plaza walks, and doorstep talks; the ending pushes past conquest scorekeeping toward feeling and choice. Russian language; sound Valery Beskorsy; cast Max Lavrinenko, Ekaterina Naumenko, Kostya Chernysh (Kostet — lighter/watch bits, same universe as I’ve Ordered You Some Coffee and Dirty Russian), Sasha Gubsky. Catalogue runtime 28 min from primary Vimeo full cut (28:29, upload 2014-10-28, id 110230600). Key art: lips-on-glass still (poster without titles for site cards). Alternate: Dailymotion xzi854. IMDb tt4143810.

Синопсис (UA)

Пікап-комедія з циклу «Міські історії». Максим — майстер вуличного пікапу; ставка — десять дівчат за місяць, до кінця лишаються дні й одна «недосвідчена» сходинка. Місто вдень і вночі, підходи, розмови, розв’язка про кількість vs почуття. У ролях Максим Лавриненко, Катерина Науменко, Костя Черниш, Саша Губський; звук Валерій Бескорсий. Основний cut: Vimeo 110230600 (~28:29) → runtime 28 хв. Дзеркало: Dailymotion xzi854.

Facts

Year: 2012
Runtime: 28m (28 min)
Format: Short · Comedy · City Stories
Genres: ComedyShortRomanceCity StoriesUkrainian cinemaIndependent
Language: Russian
Location: Kharkiv; Ukraine
Director: Sasha Poberailo
IMDb: tt4143810

Versions · 2

One title, 2 circulating cuts — not separate films. Cite the cut when discussing runtime or completeness.

Vimeo full cut
Повна версія Vimeo
Catalogue primary
28m · 2012 · Vimeo · available
Author upload “It seems like” (~28:29) with EN logline about the ten-girl bet. Primary for catalogue runtime and site Watch embed.
Завантаження автора на Vimeo (~28:29). Основна для runtime і кнопки «дивитись».
Open Vimeo→
Dailymotion mirror
Дзеркало Dailymotion
28m · 2012 · Dailymotion · limited
Legacy mirror from WordPress era. Prefer Vimeo for embed; same work, not a second film.
Архівне дзеркало. Для вбудовування — Vimeo; той самий фільм.
Open Dailymotion→

Production

PRIMARY: https://vimeo.com/110230600 (manage/videos/110230600). Duration 28:29, 1280×720, upload 2014-10-28. Poster public/films/it-seems.jpg is 1000×1500 (2:3) lips key art without text so site object-cover does not crop. Stills from the Vimeo cut in public/stills/it-seems/. Linked to I’ve Ordered You Some Coffee and Dirty Russian via Kostet / City Stories.

Themes

Quantity vs feeling
The ten-women bet is comic engine and moral test — conquest metrics fail as a measure of attachment.
Pickup as performance
Street technique, lines, and status play in public space — comedy of method more than of “winning.”
Days left on the clock
Vimeo logline stresses the deadline: few days, one girl short — pressure comedy as well as flirtation.
City Stories ensemble
Recurring faces (Kostet cameos) stitch the short into a shared urban world rather than a one-off gag.

Characters

MaximProtagonist
Max Lavrinenko
Street pickup “ace” chasing the monthly quota — comic ambition against actual attachment and the clock.
Women of the month (ensemble)Supporting
Ekaterina Naumenko and others
Targets and counter-forces of the bet — series of encounters across day streets and night glass.
KostetCameo / cycle
Kostya Chernysh
Lighter / watch scenes — same character from I’ve Ordered You Some Coffee, later Dirty Russian lead.

Scene map

The bet / clock
Ten-in-a-month rule and the last days — setup of pressure comedy.
Night glass & bench
City lights, woman on a metal bench by glass — evening register of the chase.
Day plaza approaches
Phone booths, shop signs, floral dress walking away — street pickup geography.
Doorstep / smile
Close talk and laughter in a stairwell or doorway — intimacy that may break the score.
Reversal
Ending that revalues feeling over the count.

Watch

Primary embed (see Versions for all cuts) · Open link · catalogue 28m

Credits

Director: Sasha Poberailo
Writer: Sasha Poberailo
Producer: Sasha Poberailo
Cinematography: Sasha Poberailo
Editor: Sasha Poberailo
Sound: Valery Beskorsy
Cast: Max Lavrinenko
Cast: Ekaterina Naumenko
Cast: Kostya Chernysh
Cast: Sasha Gubsky