The script for the series "Londongrad" is written in the genre of adventure action. The game picture consists of one season (28 episodes) and tells about the misadventures of Russians in the capital of Britain. The phrase “Know Ours” has become the slogan of the series. The film was released on the channel STS. The final series (each episode lasts about 50 minutes), viewers saw October 22, 2015.
Some interesting facts
The work of the agency "Londongrad", whose office is located in the capital of the Kingdom, is the main storyline of the action. The meaning of his work is to help the Russians for a very large fee. Authors and editors of magazines and newspapers such as The Guardian, Empire, Afisha and GQ worked on the script. It was based on the adventures of the Russian rap artist Oxxxymiron, who lived in the British capital for a long time. He also became the author of the main soundtrack. The creators of the series spent about a month on the installation of each episode.
Release Date “Londongrad. Know Ours ”was scheduled for September 7, 2015. According to the STS channel, every fifth resident of Moscow saw the first episode. Several events of the picture took place in prison, in which the English poet and writer Oscar Wilde was. Watching the film, the viewer will find out many famous sights, including Big Ben, Leicester Square, Parliament Square, Portobello Road Market and dozens of other objects. Filming of the series "Londongrad. Know Ours ”took place not only in the capital of the Kingdom, but also in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Oxford, the counties of Essex and Kent.
Nikita Efremov
Not planning to connect his life with the theater, the son of Mikhail Efremov studied mathematics and physics in gymnasium No. 1514. Since childhood, fond of football and basketball. Tired of the exact sciences, an 11-year-old boy became a student in a music school in which he was taught to play the violin and piano, as well as sing.
Actor of the series “Londongrad. Know Ours ”Nikita Efremov is a graduate of the Moscow Art Theater School. For the diploma performance “Woe from Wit” and the role of Chatsky, he was awarded the Golden Leaf Prize. In 2009, he joined the Sovremennik troupe. The debut theatrical role of Nikita was Gottfried Lenz - the character of the novel “Three Comrades” by E. M. Remarque. At the moment, Efremov is involved in the following performances of Sovremennik: Seryozha, Gorbunov and Gorchakov and Decameron.
A small role in the TV series "My Fair Nanny" became a debut in the movie for Nikita. Efremov’s voice speaks of Ivan Tsarevich in three parts of the animated film “Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf”. The best films with Nikita’s participation include the Ukrainian-Russian military saga “The Ballad of the Bomber”, the film almanas “Love with an Accent”, the comedy “Cinderella” and the drama “Rehearsals”.
In the series “Londongrad. Know our "actor got the role of the main character of Misha Kulikov. The 27-year-old became a citizen of the United Kingdom in 2001. Misha is the founder and senior partner of the Londongrad agency.
Ingrid Olerinskaya
Popularity for the 25-year-old actress came along with the premiere of the debut film "Inadequate People", in which she became the owner of the main female role. Ingrid attended classes at the School of the Young Journalist for some time. In 2009, she became a student of the geographical faculty of Moscow State Pedagogical University, but already in the first year she left, because she could not combine study and work. Olerinskaya has no education in the field of acting. That is why the journalists of the print media Moskovsky Komsomolets and The MOVIE in their articles admired the artist’s innate talent.
For the sake of his heroine in the series “Londongrad. Know our ”actress repainted and made a bob haircut. Ingrid played 24-year-old Alice Zagorskaya. The girl is the daughter of a Russian oligarch who escapes from Moscow to England in order to learn how to be an architect. Life confronts Alice with Misha and soon she becomes a junior partner of Londongrad.
Pavel Ilyin
His real name is Kondratyev. In 2008 he received the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. Ilyin was a student and actor of the People's Theater Studio Obelisk. In 1991 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theater, course of V. Markov. Since 1995, she has been serving in the theater of O. Tabakov. His debut film was a picture showing the life of people during the Second World War, "Tender Age", in which Ilyin played the main character. For the most part, the artist is involved in the theater, not in the cinema. Pavel Ilyin is teaching at the Moscow Art Theater School.
In the series “Londongrad. Know our "actor got the role of 53-year-old Stepan Sysoev. Living in Ryazan, he worked as a policeman. He left for London with the aim of finding his own daughter. After meeting with Kulikov, he becomes the driver of the Londongrad agency.
Sergey Rost
The actor studied at the Theater Institute of the city of Leningrad, and has a specialty "theater director". His track record consists of dozens of performances, television shows, films and TV shows. Rost worked on the St. Petersburg radio station "Modern" with Dmitry Nagiyev. They also starred together in the comedy series "Caution, Art Nouveau!", Which brought Rost a great popularity. In this program, the artist got not only male and female characters, but also scripting for them.
In the series “Londongrad. Know Our ”actor Sergei Rost played Boris Brikman. He is a lawyer and concurrently the main client of the agency Misha Kulikov. Brickman emigrated from the USSR to Britain in 1981.
Other actors and roles
In the series “Londongrad. Know our ”was attended by musicians of the group“ Bi-2 ”. Shura and Leva appeared in the 20th episode of the adventurous action. In the first episode, spectators can watch Sergey Troitsky, the creator and leader of the Metal Corrosion group, sleeping on the girl’s shoulder at the police station.
The son of Russian deputy minister and Oxford friend Misha, Oleg Dorokhov, was played by Evgeny Morozov. The role of Viktor Zagorsky, Alice's father and businessman-builder, went to the actor of the series “Londongrad. Know ours ”to Cyril Dubrovitsky. Artem Osipov played Pavel Kulikov - a talented programmer and older brother of Misha. The role of the chef of the Less restaurant and a good friend of Londongrad employees Vadim Komarov was played by Nikita Panfilov. Maria Zykova brilliantly played the hacker Alexandra and, from the 17th episode, SVR agent Victoria.
Reviews
Most opinions about the series, oddly enough, turned out to be positive. Londongrad became a witty tale of how one swindler seeks to trick another scammer. So the series was described by the journalist of The New Times G. Sitkovsky. Correspondent "Air. Poster ”M. Sukhaguzov called the script“ Londongrad ”powerful, not letting you get bored for a second. Journalist V. Lyashchenko noted that the series was shot "without a soul" and spoke out about his unwillingness to follow the affairs of "stupid customers" Misha Kulikov and his partner.
Poster magazine has successfully compared Londongrad and modern Sherlock, which is broadcast on the British BBC One channel. The art director of the Nika Prize, Y. Guzman, shared that he was watching this series with great interest, and also praised the work of authors and actors. GQ journalist T. Stanova called the idea of Londongrad worthwhile and approved the work of its creators, who did not try to "leave at the expense of Big Ben in the background."