Heroes and actors of the series "Escape"

The multi-episode "Escape" is a Russian version of one of the most popular American television series - "Escape from prison". To date, the audience has already managed to contemplate all the seasons of this multi-series drama, and the actors of the series "Escape" Their game tried to leave a pleasant impression.

The main storyline

Brothers Cyril and Alexei already in early childhood had to endure the death of his mother and leaving his father's family. The boys came to the orphanage and were everywhere together. The eldest of them, Cyril, all this time felt responsible for the upbringing of his younger brother Alexei. Kirill graduated from college, and his beloved brother decided to provide a more promising future and obtained a large sum of money, so that Alex could study in a prestigious university. But later it turns out that Cyril's money can not be returned, and from that moment all misadventures begin.

The first season of the series

In order to pay off debts, the elder brother takes upon himself the sin and agrees to the harsh conditions of the creditors. The latter give the task to kill a person. So Cyril was dragged into a major fraud, as a result of which falls into prison. The Duma of Russia even goes to such a serious step as abolishing the moratorium on the death penalty in order to get rid of Cyril. And the reason for this is the murder of not an ordinary person, but a very influential person in the government. It would seem that Kirill is threatened with a "tower", but Alexei, who decides to take risks and at any cost to release his brother, takes the case. The first season is coming to an end by the fact that due to the thoughtful plan the main characters successfully leave the prison walls.

The following seasons: developments

After the escape to the share of fugitives, new tests drop out, so the actors sat down "Escape" Who play the central characters, fall into the most unpredictable situations. Not only that the fugitives are constantly harassed by special services, the brothers are still making efforts to free Cyril's son Maxim, which ends unsuccessfully. The main characters had plans on the yacht to sail first to the Crimea, and later to leave the country and go to Turkey. But as a result of random events, the younger brother Alexei is in the hands of special forces. He is sent to the special regime zone under the strange name "Black Swan". Now Alexei has a difficult task, not only to develop a good escape plan, but also to take care of delivering his new "companion" to his destination. By the will of fate, the brothers found themselves in a similar situation with the only difference being that the free will is now the elder brother, who will have to help Alexei go free. In parallel with the adventures of the main characters, intrigues are taking place on the political field, because at the highest level there is a struggle for a place in the sun.

The distinctive features of the Russian "Runaway"

"Escape" was removed based on the American seril, but when creating the Russian version, various changes were made to the scenario, taking into account the country's legislation, the mentality of citizens, etc. That is, the project was adapted to Russian realities. For example, since there is a moratorium on the death penalty in the Russian Federation, the script had to make a fiction that the moratorium was temporarily suspended in two specific articles, namely, terrorist acts and pedophilia.

In the American serial , the vice-president of the country is killed, but in the Russian Federation there is no such post. In this regard, in the Russian film one of the main characters allegedly guilty of the death of the Minister of Finance. Also in the American version of "Escape" there is a moment when the main character finds a spiral from the mixer. In Russian prisons, such a thing is simply impossible to find, so the prisoner finds another object, which he uses afterwards. In addition, there are groups in the American prison and the Russian one. In the Russian zones there are no such bright ethnic confrontations, and the more so there are no groups organized according to the color of the skin. The creators decided that in the Russian prison opponents would be the Ural and Moscow guys.

The actors of the series "Escape" of the Russian production are more sincere, better convey real emotions, experiences - such reviews are written by fans of the film, who managed to see both versions and compare them.

Casting

Despite the similarity of the plots of the Russian and American versions of the series, these two films differ significantly from each other in many respects. One of these indicators - the actors of the series "Escape". To their selection, the creators and producers approached very seriously. In the end, the main roles went to Yuri Chursin, who plays Alexei Chernov, and Vladimir Epifantsev, who plays the role of Cyril Panin. These actors excellently displayed the intended atmosphere and essence of the main plot. The favorite ladies of two brothers in the series were Dan Agisheva and Ekaterina Klimova.

As for the performers of roles in different seasons of the multi-series project "Escape", for example, the actors of the "Escape-2" series remained practically in the same composition, but new faces were added to them. In particular, Sergey Ugryumov plays one of the central characters , and Aziz Beyshenaliev also participates in the film.

Interesting facts

• It is interesting that the main actor of the series "Escape" was chosen for casting just a couple of days before the start of the shooting process. The director and producer searched for a suitable candidate for a long time, and suddenly Yuri Chursin appeared on the casting, and he approached the main role.
• Before each shooting, Chursin had to endure "torture" - he was drawing a tattoo with a zone plan at the same time several people for six hours.
• One of the roles in the episodes went to a former prisoner who spent 17 years of his life behind bars.
• Dana Agisheva was able to learn to put drippers and do real injections in order to organically join the role of doctor.
• Actors of the series "Escape" (season 3) were involved in a variety of settings. Some episodes were filmed on the premises of the Moscow business center "Moscow City".
• To create the scenery of the special regime zone, St. Petersburg prison "Crosses" was taken as a basis, and the field surveys were carried out in one of the prisons of Nizhny Novgorod.
• The prison "Black Swan", in which the important events of the film occur, is a collective image. This name comes from two real colonies of strict regime in Russia - the prison "White Swan" in the Perm region and the zone "Black Dolphin" in the Orenburg region.

Opinions and statements

As the experts of the film industry note, completely different images were presented to the spectator of the TV series "Escape". Actors and roles are ambiguous, which is difficult to judge from one angle.

According to Andrei Malyukov, the director of this project, in the film, in addition to all known ones, such actors are involved as well, which have not yet become familiar on the screens. Among them - Юрис Лауциньш, Evgenie Mundum and dr.

A lot of memories and impressions left behind the series "Escape". Actors (a photo of some of them are placed in the article) speak about this project as an unforgettable experience, when shooting takes place in not quite normal conditions.

Cinemarks in the series

Keenekspertami and simple spectators it was noticed that in a serial series "Escape" the director's group made several mistakes. One of them concerns a character named Koba. In the territory of the zone, Koba demonstrates his bare torso, on which the tattoo stars are clearly visible. But later, when the escape from prison has already happened and Koba is next to his wife, these stars are not on the body.

Also to oversights can be attributed to the moment when Chernov is disguised as a guard's outfit. The prisoners took off the uniform with Belenko, who holds the rank of major. But Chernov appears in the frame in the form of not a major at all, but a security sergeant.