Filming of the series “Yalta” completed in Crimea

Channel One completed the shooting of the serial feature film “Yalta” – the continuation of the popular TV series of the First Channel “City” and “Gurzuf”.

The main characters – policemen from the Yalta city police department – are investigating a high-profile crime committed at the height of the holiday season in the summer of 1971. In one night, there were several attacks on speculators selling bootleg jeans, and one of them was even killed. The day before, all the best operatives left for the All-Union Conference on the exchange of experience (the Yalta policemen were among the top three in the USSR in all respects at the end of the year), and the murder has to be investigated by very young inexperienced operatives and those who have always been on the sidelines.

As in the first two parts, the director and screenwriter of the film is Dmitry Konstantinov (The City, Gurzuf, I Stay, Lines of Fate, Men Don’t Cry, Thaw, Black Wolves). Starring: Vyacheslav Chepurchenko (“Beetles”, “Ghost”, “Snoop 6”, “Diplomat”, “Gurzuf”, “City”) and Evgeny Antropov (“Dyatlov Pass”, “Doctor Liza”, “Foundling”, “Gurzuf”, “City”). Yashka Gypsy and Taras Zaitsev will be the main characters of this part. The series will also feature new faces performed by: Maria Korytova, Alexander Kudrenko, Evgeny Kharitonov, Nikolai Machulsky, Sergei Yushkevich, Elena Makhova and others.

The premiere of the series “The City” took place in 2015, the audience saw the sequel “Gurzuf” in 2018. The action of the film “Yalta” develops six years after “Gurzuf” in 1971. In the continuation of the film, the hero of Rodion Stotsky (Pyotr Fedorov) will be present only behind the scenes , Stotsky leaves for the Conference on the exchange of experience on Baikal. And the young operative Taras Zaitsev will have to investigate the murder himself.

Directed by Dmitry Konstantinov: “It was very nice to return to your favorite characters. Very bright roles in this story will be played by Vyacheslav Chepurchenko and Evgeny Antropov. Yashka Tsygan is involved in the adventurous history of organizing underground concerts. And Taras Zaitsev will have a dramatic relationship with his wife. There will be many new wonderful actors Evgeny Kharitonov, Nikolai Machulsky, Sergei Yushkevich, Sergei Udovik, Elena Makhova. The main female role went to the young actress of the Studio of theatrical art of Sergei Zhenovach, Maria Korytova. And from last season, the monkey Alena will return to Yalta with her mistress, played by Elena Nesterova.

Evgeny Antropov: “Exactly five years have passed since the filming of the Gurzuf series, it was great to meet with the team and work with actors Vyacheslav Chepurchenko, Olga Yergina and Sasha Bulatov, who played our son. Taras will have a melodramatic line in Yalta, which is not at all characteristic of him, but I will not spoil it. Dmitry Konstantinov always has very good scripts. Yalta is a good story, a good detective story, interesting characters. We, of course, lacked the “live” hero Rodion Stotsky. But I hope that this is not the final point, and if there is a continuation, we will see Peter Fedorov again.”

The series was filmed in the Crimea: in Yalta, Balaklava, Simeiz, Gurzuf, Alushta, in the Nikitsky Botanical Garden. The serial film “Yalta” will be released on Channel One in 2023.

Inna Shkarbanova.

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