In October 2015, the popular STS entertainment channel showed Quest - a series with actors who delighted viewers in other exciting projects of a network of television stations. Two years later, the viewer was offered a sequel. Despite the fact that the film was shown late at night, thousands of fans of the crypto-historical action genre watched with interest the season 2, and in Russian, the action movie about the secrets of history.
Turns of the plot
Seven people who are not familiar with each other once wake up on the roof of a skyscraper. They are dressed in uniform overalls, and on each of their wrists is a fancy bracelet with a timer. The newly-minted team is informed that they are now the heroes of a game in which their own life will be a prize. So began the 1st season of the series "Quest". Actors in someone's sinister production or lucky ones who have a chance to find something so important that its price is equal to life itself? The involuntary participants of the quest reflect on this.
To play is to survive
In the photo, the actors of the series "Quest" in the images of their characters look alarmed and doomed. Heroes are poisoned by slowly acting poison. The timer in the bracelet inexorably counts the minutes, and if the seven do not have time to complete the next task, there will be no syringe with an antidote, everyone will die. Seven have to discover dark secrets that go into the deep past, overcome their fears and investigate who played this terrible joke with them.
Descendants of Adam
The semantic center of the plot is tied to the search for the treasure of Jacob Bruce, close to Peter the Great. A “cocktail” of legends, fiction of scriptwriters and documentary historical information dedicates us to the secret of the invention of the elixir of eternal youth, which was invented by Bruce. The potion does not work without the DNA of the progenitor of mankind - Adam. Some secret organization is trying to find the direct descendant of the first person in order to get his blood with a valuable genetic component. The applicant is allegedly among seven people of different age, status and profession, whom someone unknown chose to participate in the quest.
Actors and roles in the series "Quest
The leading roles were played by artists whom the STS audience managed to passionately fall in love with and watch with interest their cinematic and personal life. Pavel Priluchny with his wife Agata Mutseniece arrived at the shooting in Riga with his son - little Timofey. For the film, the star couple changed their appearance: the long-haired blonde Agatha as a student Sasha became a short-haired brown-haired woman, and Pavel turned into a musician Dan with shoulder-length hair. Both artists used wigs. Mutseniets simultaneously starred in another project, which required her previous image. Priluchny admitted that men with long hair do not inspire confidence in him, although he is ready to make an exception with respect to his hero DJ.
Quest is the fifth joint project of young actors. First was the 2011 comedy “My Crazy Family”. In the same year, "Gamers" appeared, the continuation of the cult tech-based action movies "On the Game" and "On the Game. A new level. " In 2012, “Closed School” ended, and in 2014 the film “Secret City-2”, an adaptation of the novel by Vadim Panov, was released. After the series “Quest”, the actors were invited to star in the fantasy of 2018 - “Secret City-3”.
Brilliant composition
The role of the journalist Marina Gerasimova went to Marina Petrenko, who calls this work the most beloved in her filmography. The actress speaks of heroine as a multifaceted personality, in which femininity and rigidity, vulnerability and the ability to make firm decisions in extreme circumstances coexist. Petrenko is not only among the actors of the series "Quest", she also became his co-producer.
When they made antique-styled bracelets for the characters of the film, it turned out that the thinnest wrist was possessed not by Marina, nor by Agatha, but by Ilya Josephov. Fans of adventure cinema remember the actor who worked in the post-apocalyptic TV series “The Ship”, where he played a slender cadet Renat Akhmadullin. In the project "Quest" Ilya appeared as a hacker Vyacheslav.
Actor of the Drama Theater. A.S. Pushkin Petr Rykov is also known to the audience for the science-fiction film "The Ship", where he played the role of Andrei, a participant in the scientific project "Alexandria". In "Quest" he is one of the seven players, car mechanic Peter Grekov, or simply Greek.
Gallery of unexpected images
The audience of Peter Shakhov, who did not live to see the end of season 1, was played by Ivan Shibanov. The talented actor of the theater studio Oleg Tabakova struck the imagination of fans of mysticism and a detective in the television series “The Other Side of the Moon”, playing the role of Redhead, a maniac traveling in time in a controversial tandem with captain Soloviev.
Mikhail Yevlanov managed to create an extraordinary image of the laconic retired officer, and now the bodyguard, Alexei Khmury. No wonder, because Evlanov is one of the artists who can think of the space of his character on the set.
Another name well known to fans of STS is Yana Kraynova, who shone in the "Diaries of Dr. Zaitseva" and "Interns." The artist tried on a new role for herself - here she is a dangerous and cold-blooded coordinator of the mysterious Game, who decides who is to die.
Wizard or scientist?
The role of the culprit of incredible adventures - Jacob Bruce - was entrusted to the Latvian artist Juris Strange. In the series "Quest" the actor was lucky to create the image of a historical person - a natural scientist, whom the people cautiously called a sorcerer.
Jacob Bruce assembled a “cabinet of curious things” that became part of the Kunstkamera collection in St. Petersburg. He opened the first observatory in Russia, was engaged in scientific translations and worked fruitfully for the benefit of mining and industrial production in Russia.