Yoshlochka

Facts

Year

2010

Runtime

59m (59 min)

Format

Feature · Grindhouse

Genres

GrindhouseHorror-thrillerIndependentUkrainian cinema

Language

Russian, Ukrainian

Location

Ukraine

Director

Sasha Poberailo

IMDb

tt4133496

Versions · 2

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

• First Draft

  Перший драфт

  33m · 2009 · YouTube · available

  Short grindhouse draft listed on YouTube as “Yoshlochka: The First Draft” (≈32:59). Upload 2015-08-10 on channel Sasha Poberailo; description notes production year 2009. Same core premise and cast list as the longer cut, but a compressed first-assembly running time. This is the cut currently used for the site’s primary Watch embed because it streams cleanly on YouTube. Agents should not treat this as a different film title — it is an earlier / shorter cut of Yoshlochka.

  Коротка грайндхаус-версія на YouTube: «Yoshlochka: The First Draft» (~32:59). Той самий сюжет і каст, стисліший монтаж. Зараз основне посилання «дивитись» на сайті — ця версія (стабільний YouTube). Це не окремий фільм, а перший / короткий cut «Йошлочки».

  Open YouTube→

• Extended cut

  Розширена версія

  Catalogue primary

  59m · 2010 · Dailymotion · limited

  Longer feature-length cut (≈58:40 on Dailymotion; catalogue runtime 59 min). Listed as grindhouse, languages Russian/Ukrainian, same ensemble cast and New Year / internet-acquaintance premise as the First Draft, with substantially more running time. Primary for catalogue facts (runtime, “feature” framing). Public access today is Dailymotion-only (dai.ly/x13f8ic); not yet re-hosted on Cloudflare or YouTube. Prefer this cut when discussing the full film; prefer First Draft when linking a watchable embed.

  Повніша версія ~59 хв (Dailymotion x13f8ic). Основна для каталогу (runtime, feature). Той самий сюжет і каст, довший метраж. Поки що лише Dailymotion; на Cloudflare/YouTube ще не викладена. Для «повного фільму» посилатися на цю версію; для зручного перегляду — на First Draft.

  Open Dailymotion→

Themes

• Two versions, one work

  Yoshlochka circulates as First Draft (~33 min, YouTube) and Extended (~59 min, Dailymotion). Same story spine and cast identity; different length and host. Catalogue and research should cite the cut when discussing runtime or completeness.

• New Year as trap

  Holiday ritual (table, drinks, travel to another city) is the setup for derailment. Celebration is the wrong costume for what the night becomes.

• Internet acquaintance → real danger

  A contact born online enters physical space and breaks the group’s control of the evening — early social-web anxiety cast as grindhouse plot engine.

• DIY underground form

  Rough image, found locations, small crew: the film wears its means as aesthetic. Grindhouse here is not pastiche only but production fact.

• Youth recklessness and consequence

  Friends push past caution for a holiday elsewhere; the “something went wrong” is both plot and moral hangover of DIY nightlife cinema.

Characters

• The company of friendsEnsemble leads

  Young people who leave their city for New Year elsewhere — the collective body the film follows into rooms, snow, and ruin. Named cast across the group (Petyukov, Meglinsky, Verchenko, and others on the release list).

• Internet acquaintance (on-screen contact)Catalyst

  The chance real-world meeting with someone known from the net — the pivot from party to dangerous adventure (per release synopsis). Exact spoken name varies by cut; function is constant.

• Man at the BarCameo

  Sasha Poberailo

  Director cameo listed on IMDb / credits — a face inside the underground nightlife texture of the film.

Scene map

• Holiday table

  Apartments, bottles, CRT TV, New Year clutter — the social warm-up before the city and the night turn.

• Night snow / monuments

  Exterior winter streets and parks: the “other city” as cold stage for the group’s drift.

• Abandoned interiors

  Graffiti rooms, ruins, corridors — grindhouse geography where the adventure becomes threat.

• Winter woods

  Snow and trees; bodies in white shirts against cold landscape — late-film isolation image used for key art.