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AI-4U Wired Together

2025 Russian film

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Source revisionAug 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ137432261 ↗
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AI-4U Wired Together (Russian: (Не)искусственный интеллект, romanized: (Ne) iskusstvennyy intellekt, lit. '(Non) artificial intelligence') is a 2025 Russian teen science fiction comedy film written, produced, directed by and starring Aleksey Chadov about a teenager who finds himself inside a robot and can only return home if he makes a deal with the artificial intelligence, and also starring Leon Kemstach, Alexandra Tikhonova and Lyuba Druzyak.

This film was theatrically released in Russia on October 2, 2025, by National Media Group Film Distribution.

Plot

During an excursion to a research center, 17-year-old first-year student Zhenya accidentally gets into a test sample of a new model of the robot "Apostle" (A.P.O100L), which has its own will and mind. Having received a random pilot, the machine takes control and decides to escape from the laboratory. Now, in order to return home, Zhenya will have to find a common language with artificial intelligence.

Cast

Leon Kemstach as Zhenya

Aleksandr Pinaev as Zhenya, a little boy

Aleksey Chadov as Zhenya's father

Tatyana Babenkova as Zhenya's mother

Alexandra Tikhonova as Sveta, Zhenya's classmate at Baumanka

Lyuba Druzyak as Nika, a child

Igor Khripunov as Professor Loginov, who created the Apostle and treats him like his son, and Sveta's father

Igor Zhizhikin as Colonel

Aleksandr Samoylenko as Kotov

Boris Kamorzin as Mitrich

Sergey Chirkov as Zyablikov

Andrey Sviridov as Maloy

Zakhar Ronzhin as Kesha

Kirill Snegiryov as Bobrov

Production

The production was carried out by the film companies CTB and RED STAR FILMS with the support of the Cinema Fund.

Filming

Principal photography began in September 2024. Filming took place in the Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Yaroslavl, and Kostroma until the end of November.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “AI-4U Wired Together” is 2025 Russian film. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through AI-4U, Wired and Together, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, AI-4U, Wired and Together is the immediate research focus.
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