Russian filmmakers are no longer the first time trying in their own works to show "the life of such as it is." And they are invariably suitable for solving the task with fiction - then by focusing on the "socialist", then feeding the plot in the comic key. Here is the second category and applies about the fate of a simple actress and the participants of the stedap show "I'm not kidding", the date of the release of which on the service "Kinopoisk HD" fell out on March 4, 2021. About the premiere - in material 24cm.
Actors and roles
The main role in the new television show from the famous domestic comedians was played by Elena Novikova. Her heroine Lena, the earliest actress of the extras, and the evenings serving in the Standap show, is already 50 years old: two unsuccessful marriage and two children, and the prospects look foggy because of the constant lack of money and the need to satisfy their own already non-religious whims. Fortunately, the heroine looks at her life with humor.The role of children of the main character in the series went to young actors Artem Noshman and Taisiy Bittyukova.
Images of former husbands of Elena on the screen embodied Anatoly White and Alexey Rosin.
Iris Lebedev, Nikolai Schreiber and Olga Degtyarev as a social worker starred in the project.
Filming
For the manufacture of the show, the two famous Russian comedians created in 2018 by the famous Russian comedians, Alexander Svetlakov, Production Firm "Studio Sverdlovsk", was answered. The director's chair took Sasha's slippers for which the series "I am not joking" became debut work on television - other projects in the creative piggy bank of cinematographer until recently did not have, and his name was left unknown to the audience.
According to producers, engaging in the creation of a new project, they wanted to show the audience the life of an ordinary person without embellishment, compensating for the need for frank and sincere cinema, arising, according to Svetlakova and Nezlobin, in modern society.
According to Alexander Nellobin, in life, funny and sad go hand in hand, and negative episodes, being constructed in time, after years are perceived differently. If you focus on similar situations and ambiguous moments with which anyone faces in its path, then such an approach will invariably find a response in the hearts of the audience, because it will be close to anyone looking.
And therefore the creators of the show have tried to focus on the events that, at first, perceived as the incident is hardly tragic, subsequently turn into funny stories. Which it is possible to share in a friendly company, herself laughing at himself. Or to lose weight over your own failures from the scene, as is the main heroine.
Over the scenario, two women worked - Elena Krasilnikova actively helped in working out the plot performer of the leading role and winner of the Standap-show "Open Microphone" Elena Novikov. So, it was Novikov that prescribed bed scenes with all the care, wanting to achieve realism and avoid exaggerated stamped "cinema".
Writer noted that changes in the plot were introduced daily, depending on the various situations, in the process of shooting emerging. Why gradually the relationship of the heroes of the project was complemented by all new funny and touching items.
Training
As a collaborator, Elena Novikova's scenario added a lot of personal show to the plot of the show, why the project became practically biographical in some moments.Conducting parallels among themselves and its character, Novikova notes the similarity of both characters and life circumstances. Like the heroine of teleistory, Elena - actress with a not the most impressive track record and a comic-stand, who managed to defeat the "open microphone" competition. She is also 49 years old, and the rest of the list corresponds to: a dog, two children, two former spouses and not easy to communicate mother-in-law - everything in stock.
True, the actress notes that there is no complete coincidence with the history of her life - as it should be a creative product based on real events, all that happened in reality passes through the art filter, ingrown with details and details before entering the screen.
Yes, and the events of the series from the present are lagging behind - the prototype of the heroine has long passed through the adversity, which only to be reached on-screen Elena to overcome, processed. And now I am ready to joke from the scene over your own errors.
For the actor of Tomsk Tyuza Vladimir Khulvalov, the series "I am not kidding" and at all became the first project. Therefore, even an episodic role - an alcoholic - the artist perceived with enthusiasm. And also admitted that in the work on the character I remembered the past feelings from a long time experienced and forgotten the stage of my own life.
Reaction
The new project of famous comedians met ambiguously. A number of viewers with admiration respond about the film, although there are enough those who accused the series "I'm not joking" in copying such Western Shows, like "Dryan" with Phoebe Waller-Bridge or "Just" with Jim Kerry. However, the creators do not deny the borrowing of ideas, but "nod" first of all to another foreign series - "Amazing Mrs. Meisel".