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The Start online cinema begins showing the second season of Vampires of the Middle Band. Last year’s parody hit with “Real Ghouls” by Taika Waititi turned out to be not so funny, but was met by critics and viewers as an adequate look at modern Russian life with its merciless struggle for loyalty to cultural traditions and family values.
Winter in Smolensk gives way to spring: just as the trees are dressed in greenery, so the family of ghouls under the patriarchal leadership of Svyatoslav Vernidubovich (Yuri Stoyanov), having survived a series of tragic events, returns to life, continuing to look for the bright side in it. And where to go? Such is she, the vampire’s share! Russified over several centuries, the French doctor Zhanchik (Artem Tkachenko) drags blood from a donor for dinner, operative Annushka Ostroumova (now Anastasia Stezhko) goes to her lover in Moscow, and grandfather Svyatoslav breathes fresh air near the local Kremlin, preventing guides from distorting history. Even Countess Olga (Olga Medynich), sentenced to be burned in the finale of the first season, patiently bears offspring.
Spectators, however, should not tune in to the idyll. The reality outside the window is not conducive to this, and the genre of mystical detective, once chosen by the creators of “Vampires”, also does not contribute. On the road from Smolensk to Moscow, they again find a strange body without a head, and then a head with large fangs. Further – more: the policemen themselves, who were heading with the find to the pathologists, are overtaken by evil fate in the form of a defiantly lightly dressed Lukerya Ilyashenko. This bright artist is already accustomed to the various roles of unbridled femmes fatales of the Russian flood, but she still has not had to play the magical vamp a la Zhanna Friske from the Watches. Together with Ilyashenko, Andrey Sokolov also joined the cast of the second season, who is no stranger to the role of a reasonable and unsurprising serial investigator. In the case of a criminal incident in the Smolensk region, it seems that he will have to portray at least something like confusion a couple of times.
Successful postmodern work with leitmotifs, clichés and readymades that Russian culture and reality have been generating for the last twenty years has been the main achievement of Vampires of the Middle Band in 2021. No wonder the audience sat in front of the screen to the song performed by the main screen vampire of recent years, Ilya Lagutenko (“Night Watch”). “Vampires” played both a police detective, beloved by TV, and a movie about family values, where sentimental heroes gather in the evening for a common dinner and tea (it turned out something in the spirit of the daily production of the Rossiya TV channel, but with blood in cups). And of course, they dressed up as a historical fresco, deftly thrusting their fangs into the most important moments for modern Russian historiography of our centuries-old and, what is there, heroic path: the Time of Troubles, the Patriotic War of 1812, the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Our rapidly ruling cultural policy demanded a patriarchal look – and here, please, grandfather Svyatoslav appeared to us, dear, good, a hero from epics, perhaps a bloodsucker.
The past twenty months have been a time of massive cultural upheaval for vampires in Russia, with the first “Middle Band Vampires” followed by the Pioneer Vampires of the Food Block, and then the Aristocratic Vampires of the Karamora. But Stoyanovskaya gang of ghouls turned out to be the most domestic. His to the grave. In the spring of last year, “Vampires of the Middle Band” was not praised except perhaps by the heartless Count Dracula. There were plenty of reasons – and a successful casting, and vulgar humor, and touching everyday realism. But 2021 has passed and 2022 has arrived. And now, instead of Ekaterina Kuznetsova, who played the role of Annushka last year, from Kiev, after February 24, she condemned the SVO and left Russia, Anastasia Stezhko. And instead of the vampire zoomer Zhenya in the person of Gleb Kalyuzhny there is a pot with a swan on the window. Even if there are no more signs and intersections with the current context in the new episodes, a pot of earth in the place of careless youth and a blonde double flanking across the screen will completely pass for those. Here is another portrait of modern Russia, where there are no others, and those are far away, and people at home hardly recognize each other.
“Vampires”, of course, are no strangers to terrible news. It is known that the unconditional today Yuri Stoyanov got on the screen only thanks to a fatal accident, in which Mikhail Efremov was to blame. This project has a survival skill from birth. Who knows, maybe what happened off the screen will once again fill this gloomy, but largely family story with a special mystical meaning.
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