Yoshlochka
Original title: Йошлочка
Friends travel to an unfamiliar city to see in the New Year — a chance meeting with an internet acquaintance turns the party into a dangerous adventure. Something goes wrong…
Yoshlochka (Йошлочка) is Poberailo’s debut long-form film in a grindhouse register: a group of young people leave their usual map for New Year in another city; an online contact becomes an in-person encounter that derails the holiday into threat and chaos. Raw DIY production — low budget, underground Kharkiv energy, full multi-hyphenate credits (director / writer / producer / camera / editor). The film exists in two cuts — a 33-minute First Draft and the 59-minute extended version. Cast includes Denis Petyukov, Mikhail Meglinsky, Yuri Verchenko, Irina Makarova, Vlada Dumenko, Roman Grebenik, Tatyana Kuzmenko, Dmitry Mukovoz, Ivan Lynnyk, Andrey Terentyev; Poberailo appears as Man at the Bar. Languages: Russian and Ukrainian.
Facts
- 2010
- 59m (59 min)
- Feature · Grindhouse
- Grindhouse, Horror-thriller, Independent, Ukrainian cinema
- Russian, Ukrainian
- Ukraine
- Sasha Poberailo
One film, several cuts — pick the one you want to watch.
First Draft
Перший драфт
Short grindhouse draft listed on YouTube as “Yoshlochka: The First Draft” (≈32:59). Shot in 2009: the same premise and cast as the longer cut in a compressed first assembly — the easiest way to watch the film today.
Extended cut
Розширена версія
The full feature-length cut (≈58:40): the same ensemble and New Year premise as the First Draft, with the story given room to breathe. The runtime and the “feature” label refer to this version.
Themes
Two versions, one work
Yoshlochka circulates as First Draft (~33 min) and Extended (~59 min). Same story spine and cast identity; different length. Two lengths of the same story — a sketch and a full telling.
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 friends
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)
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 Bar
Director cameo listed on IMDb / credits — a face inside the underground nightlife texture of the film.
- Sasha Poberailo
- Sasha Poberailo
- Sasha Poberailo
- Sasha Poberailo
- Sasha Poberailo
- Denis Petyukov
- Mikhail Meglinsky
- Yuri Verchenko
- Irina Makarova
- Vlada Dumenko
- Roman Grebenik
- Tatyana Kuzmenko
- Dmitry Mukovoz
- Ivan Lynnyk
- Andrey Terentyev
- Sasha Poberailo (Man at the Bar)
Yoshlochka · Йошлочка · grindhouse · New Year · underground · DIY · debut feature · Kharkiv · horror · independent film · two versions · first draft · extended cut
Scene map · 4
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.
