Gangster Petersburg. Introduction

Gangster Petersburg. Introduction
Baron (aka journalist)
Counsel
The collapse of Antibiotic
Dramatis personae

Every age has its own series. Probably for the seventies it was "Seventeen Moments of Spring". For the eighties - "The venue can not be changed." And in the nineties it was "Gangster Petersburg". The series was born when no one expected. Russian film has been completely collapsed, viewers do not expect anything brilliant, contenting "Cops" and "destructive power" and honestly believing that the best contemporary directors just do not know how to shoot.

Crime TV series

Part One - "Baron" (5 episodes)
Part Two - "lawyer" (10 episodes)
Part Three - "The collapse of the antibiotic" (8 episodes)

The script on the works of A. Konstantinov.

Cast:

Kirill Lavrov - Baron
Lev Borisov - Viktor says (antibiotic)
Alexander Domogarov - Andrey Seregin
Dmitri Singers - Sergei Chelishchev
Olga Drozdov - Kate Zvantsev
Alexei Serebryakov - Oleg Zvantsev
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan - Gurgen
Eugene Sidikhin - Kudasov
Ksenia Rappoport - Rachel Dallet
Nikolai Rudik - Skull
Eugene Kryukov
Alex Devotchenko
Antonina Shuranova
Andrew Tolubeev
Lev Durov
Oleg Basilashvili
Alex Devotchenko
Zinaida Sharko
Yulia Shumlyaeva
and others

Director: Vladimir Bortko ("Baron", "Counsel"), Victor Sergeev ("The collapse of the antibiotic")
Written by: Vladimir Bortko, Andrei Konstantinov, Albina Shulgin, Vadim Mikhailov
Director of Photography: Valery Myulgaut
Designer: Yuri Pashigorev Vladimir Svetozarov
Composer Igor Kornelyuk
Sound Engineers Mikhail Viktorov Alexander Sysolyatin
Installation: Leda Semenova
Producer: Leonid Markin

Film "Keane". Production Studio "2-B-2", commissioned by the production center "Media Stealth" (St. Petersburg), 2000.
Genre - criminal melodrama, television series, 23 series for 52 seconds Min.26. Format Vetasam Digatal, color, sound - mono, in Russian.
Rolling license -№ 21104700 Russian State Film Committee, the date of 04.24.2000
Premiere TV: NTV - Video rental May 2000: "The Bridge Media", June 2000

The series, which is similar to life

When Vladimir Bortko has released the first part of "Gangster Petersburg", the audience embraced his amazement - the series was not like ordinary criminals militants flooded the Russian screens. Yes, and some of his TV series could be called a stretch. Rather, it was a feature film that spans across five series. By the way, at one time Bortko has declared itself, clearing the "Heart of a Dog" and "Blonde Around the Corner." The quality of "Gangster Petersburg" was simply stunning - it shot like a great movie, making extensive use of location shooting, and not only in St. Petersburg but also in Moscow, Warsaw, Helsinki, Istanbul.

The director made a bid for the actors and was not mistaken. Suffice it to say that in supporting roles starring Kirill Lavrov, Lev Durov, Oleg Basilashvili, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. And the main roles (of several) Bortko invited the most talented and popular actors of modern Russia - Alexander Domogarova, Dmitry Pevtsov, Lev Borisov, Olga Drozdov. Incidentally, Alexander and Dmitry Domogarov singers share the first place in the people's love, acting in the most successful commercial projects of recent years. They have already worked together on the series "The Countess de Monsoreau." In the frame of the characters and Domogarova Pevtsova meet only once, but the meeting will be the key for further developments unfolding in the third part of the series.

In "Gangster Petersburg", as it were three layers. The first is on the surface - a detective. Entangled intrigue makes the viewer is not looking to follow developments. The basis of the series on the novel by Andrey Konstantinov of the secret aspects of the life of contemporary St. Petersburg. It has everything - gang violence, arrow, chase, cops, lads, godfathers and so on. This creates a specific surroundings, making believe what is happening on the screen.

The second layer - love. And in the first part of the director trying to find just the topic. The main character is in position "and want, and prickly". As a result, he still throws the woman he loves. Whether out of fear that it, too, would be killed, or he just does not want anyone to love, tired of life. But in the second part of the theme of love becomes the main fact. There is a subtle psychological game - forcing the viewer to believe in something that can be madly in love with a woman, but to plant her in jail, then the risk of an attempt to rescue.

So, we went to the third seam. Psychological drama. The first part of the director just looking approach, but in the second his talent manifests itself fully. And the audience is not very forgiving and good voice acting and sometimes shoddy work of the operator. This becomes very important. Important emotions, feelings that are raging in the main characters. In the second part of the mixture of everything - hatred, desire for revenge, love, friendship, betrayal best friend's death.

Through the first two passes of the very precise idea - that you did not do, as it did not try to change the situation, the fate did not go away. We show how to break a good honest guys, both from the good guy can be a bandit, killing indiscriminately. In principle, he does not want to kill, but the logic here - if you do not have you. And not going anywhere. And there is no escape, because all around the bandits - and those on the other side of the law and those that are on this. And it turns out that a kingpin decency, than the police colonel. And that's criminal background before the spectator there is a love triangle - two best friends and a woman in which both madly in love. And the choice - either kill each other for treason, because he slept with your wife, or save it, and die himself. And there is no third. It is unclear what will outweigh - or friendship, or as men's jealousy Management of jealousy . A poor woman does not know what to do with her love, because she loves both. The unusual move, is not it? Directed by constantly forcing viewers to choose - who will remain the main character, but the ending is still unpredictable.

The series uses the same technique that was once in the "17 Moments of Spring" - a voice-over. It is as if the inner monologue of the hero, who is trying to analyze their behavior and understand why he goes deeper and deeper into the abyss of despair, fear and hopelessness. And like any external injection of the situation there - all the ordinary, quiet. The main villain is soft, gentle, somewhat reminiscent of the unforgettable Mueller old man who quietly tying their knots, leaving virtually no room for heroes escape.

How to retell the story of the psychological detective? After all, the story itself plays only a supporting role, raising only the first layer of mystery . Unfortunately, the acting, the atmosphere, the emotion on paper do not contain . If there was only a plot as it is - would leave a good detective story and nothing more . The audience does not have empathized heroes, but simply watched with interest would they be turned out of various scrapes . But in a "meeting place", we do not remember who killed whom and Vysotsky with his "I said humpback" and "17 Moments" - "And I will ask you to stay Stirlitz" . As spectators are these phrases? Just watching the film, you can understand why we remember them . Perhaps we get to the place of the characters making moral choices . Here on the card it is placed not only life, but honor and your own conscience, but the fear of betrayal is greater than the fear of death . All of us at some moment you must feel better than we might have actually . The moral choice becomes our hero's own choice, and perhaps seeing this movie, we get a little better .