An excellent product of Russian cinema (launched back in 2018 on the main federal channel) will receive another continuation of the twisted plot: the third season of the series "Former" has not yet acquired an official trailer and a specific release date for the first series (tentatively, autumn 2020), but favorite actors will remain, but the timing is the same - eight hour episodes. Watch the backstage from the set below.
Expectations rating - 94%.
16+
Russia
Genre: drama
Producer: Ivan Kitaev
Russian release: 3-4 quarter 2020
Cast: L. Aksenova, D. Shvedov, V. Khaev, G. Chaban, L. Gromov, D. Vakhrushev, L. Lapinsh, A. Glaube, S. Lebedeva, S. Lobyntsev
Timing: 52 minutes (8 episodes)
The slogan of the film very vividly reflects the Russian reality, briefly and clearly: "It happens!"
Season 2
Plot
In the center of the storyline are the same familiar to the viewer Yana and Ilya, whose lives are turned upside down after the tests passed. Everyone has a lot of common bumps behind, which they bypassed and stumbled on again: love and marriage, drugs and eternal struggle, clinic, family ...
In the new season, the plot will touch on the relationship between Yana's parents and their influence on the current reality. There is even more confusion in this matter than in personal life. It's still not easy for parents with Yana - each of the ancestors is trying to stand out instead of creating comfortable conditions for their daughter to become. On top of that, they also competed among themselves for the title of the best lover: dad has another young passion, and mom decided that she was no worse in terms of love affairs.
The idea of the whole series is based on the struggle against difficulties.
Production and shooting
Director - Ivan Kitaev ("Happy Together", "What Was Required to Prove", "Family Business").
I. Kitaev
Show Team:
- Screenplay: Alexey Trotsyuk (PI Pirogov, Hotel Eleon, Kitchen, Out of the Game), Ekaterina Surovtseva, Eldar Velikoretsky (Construction);
- Producers: Alexey Trotsyuk, Eduard Iloyan, Vitaly Shlyappo (IP Pirogova, Hotel Eleon, Kitchen, Out of the Game);
- Operator: Gennady Meder ("Revelations", "Barvikha"), Maxim Mikhanyuk ("Don't lie to me", "Practice");
- Editing: Konstantin Mazur (Black Mark, Undercover);
- Artist: Victoria Pervukhina (The Bartender, Girls Between Us), Andrey Zolotukhin (Yolki);
- Composer: Denis Vorontsov ("The Ivanovs-Ivanovs", "Out of the Game").
Production: START.
Filming for Season 3 began in late October 2019, so there is no exact date for the premiere yet. After the end of the 2nd season, the main producer Alexei Trotsyuk was tormented with only one question - whether to wait for a continuation, because everything ended so vaguely and indefinitely, it seems that there were still a lot of unsolved mysteries.
The producer's response was a little predictable and, like many showrunners, he referred to the audience success:
"Everything will depend primarily on the audience - they will like the sequel and whether they want to know what happened next."
Alexey himself would gladly stretch the story into a hundred episodes, since he himself does not yet clearly see the end of this life drama.
Actors
Cast:
- Lyubov Aksenova - Yana ("Major", "Hugging the Sky", "To Survive After");
- Denis Shvedov - Ilya ("Major", "Treason", "Factory");
- Vitaly Khaev - Yana's dad ("Salut-7", "A Place on Earth", "How I Became Russian");
- Grigory Chaban ("Secrets of the Investigation", "Pain Threshold");
- Leonid Gromov ("The Eighties", "Cargo 200");
- Daniil Vakhrushev ("Fizruk", "Policeman from the Ruble", "Superbobrovy");
- Linda Lapinsh (Mounted Police, Policeman with Ruble, Civil Marriage);
- Anna Glaube ("Youth", "Hotel Eleon");
- Sofia Lebedeva ("The Dawns Here Are Quiet", "The Lords of Dreams");
- Sergei Lobyntsev ("Capercaillie", "Traffic Light").
Interesting Facts
Here's what we can tell you interesting before the release of the 3rd season:
- Channel One in the summer of 2018, and only then the START Internet service, became the launching pad for the series “The Forces”.
- The second season was released in October 2019, just on the START platform.
- The third is a conclusion from the comparison of the first two: having received a sequel and leaving the airwaves, the director received complete freedom of action. The picture was supposed to become even closer to reality. It turned out in full: in the second season, obscene language, sex and drugs, irreplaceable in the context of the plot, appeared. Which, of course, would not have been missed on the federal channel and without which the series would have remained incomplete.
- The most experienced actor Vitaly Khaev (played the role of Yana's father) admitted that he was embarrassed when staging love scenes, so the director wanted the liveliness and naturalness of the bed life of the heroes of the series.
- The ideological inspiration was none other than the psychologist of one of the rehabilitation clinics Eldar Velikoretsky. It was he who struck the producer Alexei Trotsyuk with his stories.
- The creators and producers assure that the "Former" project is generally about addiction and the fight against it, and not just about drugs.
The year 2020 has come and the viewer is waiting for the third season of the series "The Forces" (or at least a trailer), follow the actors on social networks, the release date of the first episodes and plot elements may well be flashed by someone close to the project.