STS will show the Internet hit “Close Gestalt”

On December 19 at 22.00 STS will host the all-Russian TV premiere of the comedy series Close Gestalt, which has already won the love of online cinema viewers.

According to the plot, the car dealership manager Fyodor Yartsev (Alexander Ilyin Jr.), having miraculously survived after falling from the twentieth floor, acquires an unusual gift: now he sees ghosts. Fizruk (Nikolai Schreiber), a bandit from the nineties (Fyodor Lavrov), an Internet troll (Dmitry Lysenkov), a famous actor (Pavel Maikov) – who just does not pester him. Even his own young father (Denis Vlasenko), who disappeared thirty years ago. Fedor will have to become an intermediary between the worlds and help lost souls close the gestalt, and at the same time his own.

Thanks to the project, Happy End star Denis Vlasenko closed the gestalt right on the set. “As a teenager, I tried to grow a mustache, but it didn’t look very good,” the actor smiled. “Somewhere in the back of my mind I knew that it would suit me, but I couldn’t grow them myself. And here please, the entire filming period of three months passed with a mustache.

If the main detail of his character was found at the stage of makeup testing, then Denis’s colleagues came up with the features of their characters right on the set. So, Fyodor Lavrov added a golden fix to the image, and during the filming, the character of Dmitry Lysenkov had spoiled teeth and a lisp. “Ruslan sits at home all day and does nothing but write hateful comments,” Dmitry says. – We came up with the idea that, in addition to bad teeth, he also has glasses, since he is always in front of the monitor. He winces a little as he adjusts them on his nose. They also added a speech defect so that bad teeth were deliberately exposed.

According to the story, due to Ruslan’s negative commentary, the young athlete decides to end her career, so his soul cannot go to another world. The actor himself admitted that he does not pay attention to such Internet trolls: “I just send them to the ban. Yes, and I’m already, in general, an elderly person, so immunity has developed. ”

Filming of the series took place in the winter in Dmitry’s hometown – St. Petersburg. Unlike Lysenkov, his colleagues did not easily adapt to the weather conditions. “In principle, it was not easy, the shifts were very cold,” recalls Denis Vlasenko. – I then spent a lot of time in St. Petersburg. And it seems that during these three months I learned all the delights of night trains and train romance.

The romance of trains was also appreciated by Denis’s colleague Anna Zaikova, who combined shooting in the series with the theater and another project. “This experience showed that you need to be able to distribute and quickly switch,” the star of the legendary play “Juno and Avos” shared. “At first, of course, it was hard, but the application with meditations saved me, which perfectly helps to disconnect for a couple of minutes and reboot.”

The actress also recalled her unclosed gestalts: “Constantly some kind of gestalts pop up. For example, I dreamed of a short haircut for a long time. She didn’t dare, because she played Conchita in Juno and Avos and other classic heroines. But a wonderful agent, Ira Kalashnikova, appeared in my life, who advised me to cut off my hair. I doubted, then the pandemic began, we sat at home, did not work. I took and cut. I’m still happy that it worked out that way.”

Inna Shkarbanova.

Photos from filming