It is a sequel to the 2019 film Serf and stars Miloš Biković, Ivan Okhlobystin, Aleksandr Samoylenko, and Maria Mironova, were joined by Aglaya Tarasova and Natalya Rogozhkina.
The reformed major Grisha decides to teach a lesson to the spoiled and arrogant daughter of an official, Katya.
It received mixed reviews from journalists, with praise for the film's scale while criticism was aimed at its lack of originality.
[6] While celebrating her birthday in Saint Petersburg, a drunken Katya throws people along the river Moyka into the water.
Katya was sentenced to two years in prison but being the daughter of Saint Petersburg's official Tatyana Vasilievna Novikova, she was sent to the United Arab Emirates instead.
Imagine Grigory’s surprise when he again accidentally encountered a tipsy Katya, this time on board a private plane when she was supposed to serve her sentence.
Grisha enlisted the support of old acquaintances of actors who had previously performed roles for the play for its corrective purposes, but none of them liked this idea, since everyone feared the wrath of an important official.
First of all, the shocked Katya is introduced to her despotic stepmother, played by Pavel’s wife, as well as her half-sister Aglaya and maid Lyuba.
The decorators have to urgently abandon their village, and, at Lev’s suggestion, they move the action to a luxurious palace, which Pavel recently bought.
While Pavel is distracting the official’s attention, the others are hastily preparing everything for the ball organized by the "prince" in honor of the guest.
The enraged Tatyana Vasilievna threatens the enthusiasts with huge troubles, and she has to be put in the basement, where the image from the ball is shown to her.
Klim Shipenko admitted that he reviewed all the film adaptations of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" in order to cope with this new task for him.
[10] Serf 2 held its world premiere at the Karo 11 October cinema center on New Arbat Avenue in Moscow on December 21, 2023.
[13] "Meduza" was skeptical about the second film, noting the high-quality editing and prettier picture; a significant part of the review was devoted to the blandness of the script and the director’s indecisiveness in political satire, which was much more in the original.