Alessandro Pallini/Aleksandr Pal (mentioned as "grande regista pornografico") starred in this film in 2020, playing the pornography films director. The plot of the film is connected to the episode in Ciao 2020.
The memory of the group celebration in an earlier and much happier time like in the classic Soviet movie. Shot very similarly and conveys the same message. Moreover the career and personal trajectory of Nikita Mikhalkov who had directed the original movie seems to have served as an inspiration for the protagonist of the new one.