"At the Bottom" (На дне) is a Russian comedy series produced by FLOW Production, commissioned by the online cinema Premier and directed by Boris Kazantsev. It premiered on April 27, 2023.[1] The series was filmed in Nizhny Novgorod: the crew worked in the Zapovednye Kvartaly (Protected Quarters) and on Korolenko Street, and the lead role was played by Nizhny Novgorod native Danil Tyabin.[2]
About the Series
The hero of the series is 28-year-old Styopa (Danil Tyabin), who has just been released from prison on parole. He dreams of moving to Moscow and becoming an elite plumber, but the inheritance from his grandmother, a room in an old building in the center of Nizhny Novgorod, brings new troubles: his grandmother had been a courier for a corrupt local police officer nicknamed "the Kladmen" (drug-stash dropper) and owed him 2.5 million rubles. This debt passes to Styopa. At the same time, the building where the hero lives is slated for demolition to make way for a shopping mall, and Styopa unexpectedly finds himself fighting for the residents' rights.[1][2]
The starring cast includes Danil Tyabin, Timofey Tribuntsev, Aleksandra Milyoshina, Vasily Babaev, Irina Nosova, Mariya Elsukova, Mark Burlay, Oleg Shapkov, and Tatyana Orlova.[1] The screenplay was written by Boris Kazantsev together with Sergey Pelipas, Ivan Yastrebov, Aleksey Sergeev, Anton Voronin, Aleksey Sashin, Yana Vyatina, and Gleb Pernatkin. The cinematographer is Kirill Knyazev.[1] The series consists of 10 episodes, each about 25 minutes long.[1]
The idea for the series arose in 2019, when, for the 800th anniversary of Nizhny Novgorod, the authorities were accepting applications for funding cultural projects: Kazantsev applied for 20 million rubles but was turned down. Nevertheless, the project was realized — three years passed from the birth of the concept to the premiere.[1]
Filming in Nizhny Novgorod
Filming took place in Nizhny Novgorod in the summer of 2022.[3] The main locations were:
- Zapovednye Kvartaly — a historic district in the center of the city, where a significant part of the action takes place.[4]
- Korolenko Street — this is where the episodes involving the old house, which the plot threatens with demolition, were filmed. The characters' home is the Pankratov house on Korolenko Street; shooting there took about 15 filming days.[2]
The Nizhny Novgorod setting of the plot is fundamental for the creators: the story of historic houses being demolished to make way for shopping centers is presented as a situation typical of the city.[2] The film crew was largely from Nizhny Novgorod.[2]
Danil Tyabin, who plays the lead role, is from the Avtozavodsky District of Nizhny Novgorod. He graduated from the Evstigneev Theatre School, then entered the Shchukin Higher Theatre School in Moscow.[2]
Release and Reception
The first episodes premiered on April 27–28, 2023, on the Premier platform; the final episodes were released on May 24–26, 2023.[5] At the time of release, the series received a rating of 5.67 on viewer-rating aggregators.[6]
Sources
- cyclowiki.org — At the Bottom (TV series) — Cyclopedia
- NN.RU — The series "At the Bottom," shot in Nizhny, has been released. We walked around the filming locations with the actor who played the lead role (May 10, 2023)
- vm.ru — Director Kazantsev talked about filming in Nizhny Novgorod (February 17, 2023)
- Nizhegorodskaya Pravda — Six films and two series are being shot in Nizhny Novgorod (July 19, 2022)
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