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it is built on the 1976 Soviet audio play of the same name, with songs written by [Vladimir Vysotsky](https://www.edgepedia.org/vladimir-vysotsky), which was itself inspired by Carroll's book.[2](https://www.vedomosti.ru/media/articles/2025/11/08/1153195-kinoskazka-alisa) It was released in Russian theaters on 23 October 2025 and became one of the highest-grossing Russian films of the year.[3](https://www.kinometro.ru/release/card/id/55234)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Genre and country | Russian fantasy, adventure, family musical; age rating 6+; running time 1 hour 48 minutes[1](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/6218104/) |\n| Director and writer | Yuri Khmelnitsky (previously \"Ice 3\"); screenplay by Karina Chuvikova[1](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/6218104/) • [4](https://www.rbc.ru/life/news/68c5d5fe9a7947869e65b906?ysclid=mhq2tgelbl692356430) |\n| Source material | The 1976 Soviet audio play with songs by Vladimir Vysotsky, based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland[2](https://www.vedomosti.ru/media/articles/2025/11/08/1153195-kinoskazka-alisa) |\n| Theatrical release | 23 October 2025, distributor Central Partnership[3](https://www.kinometro.ru/release/card/id/55234) |\n| Box office | 1,249,356,458 rubles in Russia and CIS with 3,078,941 admissions as of 31 December 2025; $16,018,703 in Russia, 9th highest-grossing release of 2025[3](https://www.kinometro.ru/release/card/id/55234) • [5](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/index.php?level=6&view_best_box=1&view_best_box=3&view_year=2025) |\n| Digital release | 31 December 2025 on Okko, KION, Kinopoisk, PREMIER, and Ivi[6](https://kinotv.ru/read/news/film-alisa-v-strane-chudes-vyshel-v-onlayn-kinoteatrakh/) |\n| Reception | Kinopoisk user rating 6.3 from over 557,000 votes; 27% approval among Russian film critics (4 positive, 11 negative of 15 reviews)[1](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/6218104/) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot and premise\n\nThe heroine, Alisa Koroleva, is a 15-year-old schoolgirl preparing to retake the OGE state exam. Instead of studying, she runs away to a park, where she meets a man in white and falls into Wonderland.[7](https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8140512) In this world the sun hangs forever at its zenith, time does not flow, and scattered doors connect different corners of the fairy-tale land.[8](https://t-j.ru/alisa-v-strane-chudes-2025-review/) Among the residents, called antipodes, Alisa recognizes her own parents, teachers, and friends, but none of them recognizes her; to her they are strangers.[1](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/6218104/)\n\nTo return home, Alisa must pass a series of trials, including a sea of her own tears, the treacherous paths of a magic forest, and a deadly avalanche, and she must also grow up, because only then can she save Wonderland from a real catastrophe.[9](https://www.alisa-film.ru/) A romantic storyline runs through the film: her school crush Kostya Dodolev (Oleg Savostyuk) turns out to be the guide into Wonderland, echoing the Dodo bird, the narrator of the original 1976 recording.[10](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/media/news/4011992/)\n\nThe double roles given the adult cast map the two worlds onto each other: Milos Bikovic plays Alisa's father and the Hatter, Irina Gorbacheva her mother and the [Queen of Hearts](https://www.edgepedia.org/queen-of-hearts-alices-adventures-in-wonderland), Paulina Andreeva the school director and the Duchess, Ilya Lykov the literature teacher and the [Cheshire Cat](https://www.edgepedia.org/cheshire-cat), and Sergey Burunov the Blue Caterpillar.[11](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/6218104/cast/)\n\n## Origin in the 1976 audio play\n\nThe film's foundation is the famous Melodiya record of 1976, a two-disc audio play based on Carroll's story with songs by Vladimir Vysotsky set to music by Evgeny Gevorgyan.[12](https://tvmag.ru/article/movies/2025-09-23-chto-izvestno-o-novom-filme-alisa-v-strane-chudes/) The staging idea came in the 1970s from the theater actor and director Oleg Gerasimov, who asked his student Vysotsky to write the song texts and melodies.[7](https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8140512) The record's allegorical songs met resistance: a children's theater demanded the discs be withdrawn from public access, and only the intervention of the poet [Bella Akhmadulina](https://www.edgepedia.org/bella-akhmadulina) kept them on sale.[12](https://tvmag.ru/article/movies/2025-09-23-chto-izvestno-o-novom-filme-alisa-v-strane-chudes/) At a final art council, the director Natalia Sats accused the recording studio of \"corrupting children with Vysotsky's monstrous songs,\" according to Kommersant's account.[7](https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8140512) Despite this, the album became a bestseller and entered the canon of Soviet children's culture.[10](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/media/news/4011992/)\n\nProducer Danila Sharapov knew the record from his own childhood and decided it was good material for a screen adaptation; he described updating Vysotsky's poetry in contemporary music as both \"pride and responsibility.\"[7](https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8140512) • [13](https://doc.ru/kino/alisa-v-strane-chudes/) Kommersant's reviewer noted that the film has almost no relation to Carroll's novel itself: the Vysotsky songs are joined by a new plot.[7](https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8140512)\n\n## Production\n\nThe film was produced by the company Mediaslovo, the online cinema KION, and Gazprom-Media Holding.[4](https://www.rbc.ru/life/news/68c5d5fe9a7947869e65b906?ysclid=mhq2tgelbl692356430) Producers included Danila Sharapov, Tina Kandelaki, Igor Mishin, and Pyotr Anurov.[4](https://www.rbc.ru/life/news/68c5d5fe9a7947869e65b906?ysclid=mhq2tgelbl692356430) Director Yuri Khmelnitsky had previously made the sports drama \"Ice 3,\" which earned almost 2 billion rubles in theaters the year before; screenwriter Karina Chuvikova had debuted with the tragicomedy series \"Chemistry Between Us.\" Both were graduates of the \"Industriya\" film school.[10](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/media/news/4011992/)\n\nComposer Vladislav Saratovkin, known for the series \"September 3,\" \"Krasnaya Polyana,\" and \"Unprincipled,\" wrote the music, adapting Vysotsky's songs to new arrangements.[4](https://www.rbc.ru/life/news/68c5d5fe9a7947869e65b906?ysclid=mhq2tgelbl692356430) Khmelnitsky said in an interview that the musical numbers were the most serious challenge, since there were many of them and each carried Vysotsky's demanding poetry; the Caterpillar's number, for example, was reworked from an intended pop-diva style into a melancholy composition with [Johnny Cash](https://www.edgepedia.org/johnny-cash) notes once Sergey Burunov was cast.[14](https://tvmag.ru/article/movies/2025-10-30-rezhisser-alisy-v-strane-chudes-yuriy-khmelnitskiy-intervyu/) • [15](https://www.kursivom.ru/%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0-%D0%B2-%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5-%D1%87%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%81-%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC-2025-%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F/) Saratovkin and music producer Evgeny Vorontsov later received a TEFI-Kids nomination for the film's music.[16](https://cicr.ru/nikita-vysotskiy-rasskazal-o-kinoversii-alisy/)\n\nThe lead role went to Anna Peresild, the 16-year-old daughter of the actress Yulia Peresild and the director Alexei Uchitel; it was her first major film role.[7](https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8140512) • [17](https://dspace.nplg.gov.ge/bitstream/1234/572040/1/Podruga_2025_N45.pdf) The trailer, released 2 September 2025, presented the cast including Peresild, Paulina Andreeva as the Black Queen, Sergey Burunov as the [Caterpillar](https://www.edgepedia.org/caterpillar), Milos Bikovic as the Hatter, and Irina Gorbacheva as the Red Queen.[4](https://www.rbc.ru/life/news/68c5d5fe9a7947869e65b906?ysclid=mhq2tgelbl692356430)\n\n## Release and box office\n\nThe film premiered in Russian theaters on 23 October 2025, distributed by Central Partnership in digital format.[3](https://www.kinometro.ru/release/card/id/55234) In its opening week it led evening screenings among Russian releases.[18](https://www.fond-kino.ru/documents/download/2651/) By 8 November its gross had passed 1 billion rubles, making it the third \"billion-ruble\" release of that autumn according to the state Film Fund's EAIS data.[2](https://www.vedomosti.ru/media/articles/2025/11/08/1153195-kinoskazka-alisa) By 31 December 2025 it had earned 1,249,356,458 rubles across Russia and the CIS from 3,078,941 admissions, of which 1,230,300,764 rubles came from Russia alone.[3](https://www.kinometro.ru/release/card/id/55234) Kinopoisk's year ranking placed it 9th among 2025's highest-grossing films in Russia, at $16,018,703.[5](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/index.php?level=6&view_best_box=1&view_best_box=3&view_year=2025)\n\nTwo months after the theatrical release, on 31 December 2025, the film appeared on Russian streaming platforms: Kinopoisk, Okko, KION, PREMIER, and Ivi.[6](https://kinotv.ru/read/news/film-alisa-v-strane-chudes-vyshel-v-onlayn-kinoteatrakh/)\n\n## Reception\n\nAudience and critical responses diverged. On Kinopoisk the film holds a user rating of 6.3 from more than 557,000 votes, while Russian film critics gave it 27 percent approval, with 4 positive and 11 negative reviews out of 15.[1](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/6218104/) Viewers praised the visual design and the ensemble; one recurring observation was the color work, with reality rendered plainer and colder and Wonderland richer but not the acid-bright palette usually used for Carroll's world.[19](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/6218104/reviews/)\n\nCritics were split over how the adaptation handled its sources. Andrei Sidorchik of Argumenty i Fakty called the musical distinctive and well-made against the wave of domestic film fairy tales, while Lidia Maslova of Fontanka described it as a chaotic mixture of scraps of Carroll's fantasy, musical numbers from the old audio play, and familiar actors in ornate costumes.[20](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/6218104/press/) The Tinkoff Journal review found the film falling apart despite its visual merits, with the narrative switching among the paradoxical workings of Wonderland, coming-of-age and first-love stories, and Alisa's relations with parents, friends, and the world, without settling on one.[8](https://t-j.ru/alisa-v-strane-chudes-2025-review/) The same review noted that the satirical core of the Vysotsky and Gerasimov audio play, which had wittily recorded the absurdity of stagnant \"timelessness,\" survives only in a few scattered jokes about mad courts and a country where \"everyone is afraid to do anything.\"[8](https://t-j.ru/alisa-v-strane-chudes-2025-review/) Khmelnitsky, responding to viewer reactions, said he was glad that many people wanted to reread Carroll's book or listen to the Vysotsky records for the first time.[14](https://tvmag.ru/article/movies/2025-10-30-rezhisser-alisy-v-strane-chudes-yuriy-khmelnitskiy-intervyu/)\n\n## References\n\n1. [Алиса в Стране чудес (2025), Кинопоиск](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/6218104/)\n2. [Киносказка «Алиса в Стране чудес» собрала 1 млрд рублей, Ведомости (8 ноября 2025)](https://www.vedomosti.ru/media/articles/2025/11/08/1153195-kinoskazka-alisa)\n3. [АЛИСА В СТРАНЕ ЧУДЕС: кассовые сборы, Кинометро](https://www.kinometro.ru/release/card/id/55234)\n4. [Фильм «Алиса в Стране чудес» 2025: дата выхода, трейлер, актеры и сюжет, РБК Life](https://www.rbc.ru/life/news/68c5d5fe9a7947869e65b906?ysclid=mhq2tgelbl692356430)\n5. [Лучшие кассовые сборы в России: 2025, Кинопоиск](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/index.php?level=6&view_best_box=1&view_best_box=3&view_year=2025)\n6. [Фильм «Алиса в Стране чудес» вышел в онлайн-кинотеатрах, КиноТВ (31 декабря 2025)](https://kinotv.ru/read/news/film-alisa-v-strane-chudes-vyshel-v-onlayn-kinoteatrakh/)\n7. [В прокате «Алиса в Стране чудес» с Пересильд, Андреевой и Буруновым: рецензия, Коммерсантъ (22 октября 2025)](https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8140512)\n8. [«Алиса в Стране чудес»: отзыв, актеры, сюжет, Т—Ж](https://t-j.ru/alisa-v-strane-chudes-2025-review/)\n9. [Официальный сайт фильма «Алиса в стране чудес»](https://www.alisa-film.ru/)\n10. [«Алиса в Стране чудес»: суматошный мюзикл о потерянном времени, Кинопоиск Медиа](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/media/news/4011992/)\n11. [Алиса в Стране чудес (2025) — актеры и съемочная группа, Кинопоиск](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/6218104/cast/)\n12. [Фильм «Алиса в стране чудес» с Анной Пересильд – что известно, TV Mag](https://tvmag.ru/article/movies/2025-09-23-chto-izvestno-o-novom-filme-alisa-v-strane-chudes/)\n13. [«Алиса в Стране чудес», Документальное Кино (DOC.ru)](https://doc.ru/kino/alisa-v-strane-chudes/)\n14. [Режиссер Юрий Хмельницкий рассказал, как создавалась «Алиса в Стране Чудес», TV Mag (30 октября 2025)](https://tvmag.ru/article/movies/2025-10-30-rezhisser-alisy-v-strane-chudes-yuriy-khmelnitskiy-intervyu/)\n15. [«Алиса в Стране чудес» — фильм 2025 г.; Россия, КУР.С.ИВ.ом](https://www.kursivom.ru/%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0-%D0%B2-%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5-%D1%87%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%81-%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC-2025-%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F/)\n16. [Никита Высоцкий рассказал о киноверсии «Алисы в Стране чудес», CICR](https://cicr.ru/nikita-vysotskiy-rasskazal-o-kinoversii-alisy/)\n17. [ПОДРУГА №45, ноябрь 2025](https://dspace.nplg.gov.ge/bitstream/1234/572040/1/Podruga_2025_N45.pdf)\n18. [ЕАИ, Фонд кино, 23.10–29.10.2025](https://www.fond-kino.ru/documents/download/2651/)\n19. [Алиса в Стране чудес (2025) — отзывы и рецензии, Кинопоиск](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/6218104/reviews/)\n20. 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