How I Became Russian (Chinese: 战斗民族养成记; Russian: Как я стал русским) is a 2019 Chinese-Russian romantic comedy film directed by Xia Hao and Akaki Sakhelashvili, written by Andrey Zolotarev and Lei Guanglin, and starring Dong Chang, Vitaliy Khaev, Elizaveta Kononowa, and Sergey Chirkov.
[1][2][3] The film is an adaptation of the 2015 Russian comedy television series of the same name.
The film follows a young Chinese man named Peng Peng as he tries to win the right to marry the Russian woman he fell in love with by overcoming trials that his would-be father-in-law creates for him.
Filming took place in Moscow, Beijing, and Shanghai in 2018.
In November 2018, the producers announced that the film was scheduled for release on January 24, 2019.