The premiere of the series "By Knee" took place in March 2021 at the Moscow Cinema and on the IVI online service. The release date of the lyrical comedy picture, telling about the problems of people of small growth, but with big dreams and ambitions, on the CTC channel - May 11. The main hero of the tape looks at the world from the height of its growth of 135 cm, but not used to lower his hands before difficulty and confident that he is "the sea knee."
In material 24cm - more about the actors of the series and their roles, the plot, as well as interesting facts about the shooting process.
Plot and shooting
In the center of the plot of the multi-sized ribbon - the history of a simple guy from the province, the growth of which is only 135 cm. Despite this circumstance, Sasha Mushrooms dreams of getting into the world of big cinema and goes to conquer the capital of Russia, leaving the annoying work in the urban taxi. In Moscow, a guy waits for a meeting with a woman of his dreams, familiarity with new people and other exciting adventures. Also, the hero has to communicate with capricious celebrities, a competitive struggle for the role, love intrigues and even imprisonment.The production of the series was engaged in the CARBON PRODUCTION film company. The director's chair in the project went to Alexander Abdullayev. The script for the film was written by Alexander Vyazhal, Alexander Mamedov, Alexey Korda, Ivan Starostin, Roman Maslov. Leonid Kiknis was engaged in the project decoration, Marina Tarasova became a casting director. The producers were chosen: David Kocharov, Oleg Tumanov, Maxim Rybakov, Anton Fedotov, Tina Kandelaki, Sergey Shnurov, Alexander Sloval, Andrei Orlov, Ekaterina Zalleov, Evgeny Chetverikov.
Actors and roles
The main roles in the series "By Knee" played the actors:
- Ivan Filippov - Sanya Mushrooms;
- Stanislav Agafonov - Stas, Cheerful and Student neighbor Sani;
- Anastasia Ukolova - Alena Zarezka, actress, in which mushrooms hopelessly fell in love;
- Angelina Strechin - Dasha, Assistant for actors;
- Olga Vinichenko - Rita;
- Nikolay Lunin - Metrotel;
- Anar Khalilov - Nikita, a narcissist actor, a challenger on the heart of Alena;
- Irina Chipizhenko - Valentina Georgievna, Mistress Apartment Stas;
- Olga Efremova - Elvira.
The stars of cinema who played themselves appeared in the tape: Jan Tsaznik, Maxim Lagashkin, Igor Okolnikov, Agatha Motition, Sergey Zhigunov. In addition, there are other actors of small growth in the filming: Artem Bobtsov, Kirill Kruglov and the ex-participant of the Little Big group Olympia Ivlev.
Also in the tape were filmed: Vyacheslav Manuchars (Edward, Director), Boris Dergachev, Mikhail Kremer (Policeman), Roman Ripko (Policeman), Garik Aivazov (Bandit), Ivan Kupurenko and others.
Interesting Facts
1. Director Alexander Abdullayev - Debutant in the world of cinema. In his creative career, some works, but he has already managed to try his hand as an actor, producer and a screenwriter in the series "Big Game", which came out on the screens in 2018.2. Shooting the series "By Knee" took place in Moscow in 2020.
3. Beginner actor Ivan Filippov, who is also known as the leading corporate houses, noted that the Sitter "By Knee" became the first project on a similar topic and has no analogues in the Russian cinema, and that is why this story hooked it. The Contractor believes that young people also have problems and they are similar to the problems of an ordinary person. The actor emphasizes the audience expects an interesting story about love, romance and strong friendship.
Ivan Filippov also said that he had to perform tricks in the frame on his own, because it is almost impossible to find a fluber of such growth. The actor fell a lot, jumped out of the car and hung under the ceiling for a long time to get a good frame.
4. Vyacheslav Manuchars spoke in an interview about the star disease, which I had to face shooting participants. "This is a natural story," the director stressed, reincarnated in the actor.
5. Artem Bobtsov called the series unusual and vital: "What happens in the frame happens with a small courageous person who shows his strong character, fighting and reaches heights." The character of Bobtsov, who is ready for everything, for the sake of role, became the main antagonist. The actor noted that he did not meet in the life of such competition. "This is the same community as those who work in another organization. We have a lot in common, we work in one city, we are engaged in one thing, and everyone attracts as it can. "
6. David Kocharov spoke about the work on the project and the extension of the series for the second season. It is reported that the continuation of the film on the "little man in the Big City" will be released in the same year.
The producer described the film as a funny and touching comedy and noted that their idea initially supported the producers of the CTC television channel, who had impressive experience in movies and on television: Vyacheslav Murugov, Anton Fedotov, Maxim Rybakov.
7. Alexander Vyazhal, who made a creative producer and the author of the idea of the project, shared a history of acquaintance with the leading role. With Ivan Filippov, they met in the KVN League, where ordinary guys played and people with disabilities. Alexander noted that he was surprised by the cheerfulness of Ivan, his position and lifestyle. The author called the project by autobiographical for many participants, and the plot of love - universal.
8. Actress Anastasia Ukolova said that before the filming was not familiar with people of small growth and did not suspect their problems. But on the project, the actress met new people, and they had strong friendships. Anastasia noticed that in the series she had to play himself: a beginner actress, which only makes the first steps to the world of cinema. However, Ukolov believes that her heroine in character is very different from it. An interesting experience for the performer was to participate in the scene of "shooting in the shooting" when the actors have to show the viewer what is happening on the site "for the scenes".
9. Spectators shared their impressions of the Sitkom in the network and called the project interesting and unusual. Among the minuses, commentators noted the lack of dynamics in the plot and the abundance of "vulgarities". The series "By Knee" received the average critics ratings and rating of 5.7 stars out of 10. The creators note that the project became the subject of pride and the most successful on service IVI. This is told about the indicators of "inspection" of the series: 70-82%.