Mines in the Fairway is a comedy series released in 2007 by Mentor Cinema. The director of the series is Nikolai Geiko. Screenwriters - Arkady Inin and Olga Danilova. Actors of the series "Mines in the Fairway" - Stanislav Duzhnikov, Svetlana Antonova, Nikolai Dobrynin, Artyom Semakin, Lyudmila Arinina, Alexander Pankratov-Cherny, Svetlana Ivanova.
General information about the series
The series tells us about the everyday life of sailors with humor. In the center of the action are three lieutenants, on duty of the mine search and clearance. In the series there is a place for love, friendship, and fidelity.
Actually, Mines in the Fairway is a naval team. It is given by a signal sailor to the crew if he sees at the heading of the ship a danger threatening the life of the crew. In this case, the expression "mines in the fairway", the actors of the series agree with this, is used in a figurative, philosophical sense. This refers to the "mines" that await each of us on the path of life. The creators of the series, including screenwriter Arkady Inin, are trying to convey to us in this series, which is very important on your life path to notice the imminent dangers in time and skillfully avoid them.
Filming of the series was organized in the city of Sevastopol. The form in which the heroes of the series appear on the screen is real, it was provided by the Sevastopol fleet.
Plot
Three young graduates of the Institute of the Navy dream of serving in Sevastopol. They imagine how to get to the destroyer "Invincible", dream of sea adventures and trips.
Upon arrival at the duty station, the chief of staff sends the sailors completely to the wrong destination.
The heroes of the series not only work, they always find an opportunity to have fun and relax. Often because of this, they fall into ridiculous and funny situations. All three guys are completely different in character, they have different ideas about life, but now they have to live together in a small room. Of course, it was not without a love line in the series "Mines in the Fairway".
The actors in the series are selected truly talented and interesting. I want to follow the fate of each hero, there is some intrigue in the fate of everyone. Heroes cause sympathy and empathy among the audience.
"Mines in the Fairway": actors and roles
So, which of the actors got the role in the script?
Three lieutenants, the main characters are Artyom Semakin as Yuri Naryshkin, Andrei Frolov as Pavel Veresov and Stanislav Duzhnikov, who played the role of Boris Kochin.
Stepanchenko played the role of Rear Admiral Mamontov in the series, Lyudmila Arinina acted as his mother, and actress Svetlana Ivanova as her daughter.
Alexander Pankratov-Cherny on the screen turned into a boatswain, and Alexander Pashutin became a fleet commander.
Nikolai Dobrynin got the role of minesweeper commander Buryshev, Alexander Tyutin - the role of chief of staff of the Kharchevsky division.
Filming
Director Nikolay Geiko is known to the general public for films and TV shows such as Memento Mori (released in 1991), Germans in the Urals (in 1998), Cherub (in 2005), From Love to Cohan (in 2008). The project "Mines in the fairway", the actors warmly recall participating in it, for some time gathering dust on the shelf. None of the directors decided to take on his incarnation. Geiko was not afraid to start filming, he was sure that stories from the life of lieutenants of the Navy would find a response from the audience.
In the process of filming, actors sometimes had to personally perform quite dangerous tricks. So, for example, in one of the scenes, Artem Semakin had to jump over the car and fall on the broken glass. The actor persuaded the creators of the series to invite an understudy, but as a result he participated in the scene himself. The jump was successful, the actor was not injured, and the scene was played very realistically.