On Monday, October 7 at 20:00 on the NTV channel the long-awaited seventh season of the action-packed series “Nevsky” starts. Viewers will again meet the main characters, played by actors Anton Vasiliev and Dmitry Palamarchuk. A total of 30 episodes have been prepared for screening; the new season is called “Close Enemy.”
The plot of the series centers on Pavel Semenov, an employee of the St. Petersburg police department on Nevsky Prospekt. His role is played by the popular actor Anton Vasiliev.
The engine of the first episodes will be the bloody drama that took place in the finale of the previous season. In the building of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, a shootout occurred, there were hostages and several killed. What will happen next?
To restore order in the city on the Neva, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs General Kondratyev arrives from Moscow. His role in the series is played by actor Andrei Korovnichenko. Pavel Semenov (Anton Vasilyev) will receive the rank of lieutenant colonel, become an employee of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and begin working in the homicide department of the Criminal Investigation Department. Andrei Mikhailov (actor Andrei Gulnev) will serve with him. Now their area of responsibility includes not only the city center and Nevsky Prospekt, but also the whole of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.
A similar “promotion” awaits the main character’s best friend Alexey Fomin (Dmitry Palamarchuk). In the seventh season of Nevsky, he will lead the criminal world of St. Petersburg and face new influential enemies. And very quickly the understanding will come that seizing power is not enough, it still needs to be retained.
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Viewers can expect unexpected and dangerous plot twists
The confrontation between the main character and the mysterious leader of the Architects gang will continue. The name of the antagonist will finally be revealed, and Pavel Semenov will have to take extreme measures more than once, risking his career and life.
The production of Nevsky is carried out by the Triix Media company. The series has been filmed for almost 10 years and remains one of the main hits of the NTV channel. We asked members of the film crew to tell us how they succeed and what awaits viewers in the new season.
Stay real
The performer of the role of Pavel Semenov, actor Anton Vasiliev, believes that the whole secret is sincerity. “It seems to me that the viewer does not lose interest in our series, because we try to be as sincere as possible with it. It is important for me that my hero remains real, and not that everyone likes Captain Semyonov. Sometimes colleagues say: “Well, that’s not nice. Let’s, for example, fix my hair.” And I say: “It happens! We can be ugly, unkempt, imperfect. Semyonov is not a cop, not a superhero, he is a human being. Let’s leave it as it is.” We have been filming the series “Nevsky” for a very long time. I change, grow up, get angry and happy, get fatter and lose weight. All this happens to my character. And of course, over so many years, Semenov has become an integral part of me, and I of him,” says Anton Vasiliev.
Another reason for the popularity of the series lies in the rapprochement of opposites.
“In the story, policeman Semenov is friends with crime boss Fomin. They are bound by decades of friendship: shared losses, victories, pain and joy. I believe that such friendship is possible. They can completely disagree with each other, fight, not communicate for months, and then get a call at five in the morning, drop everything and run to help. No matter how fantastic and unrealistic the scenario may sometimes seem, we, amidst shootouts, chases, deception, betrayal, cops and thieves, are trying to defend a simple idea: the main thing is not to lose faith in honor, friendship, love and, no matter what happens, to remain human.” , noted actor Dmitry Palamarchuk.
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Find and reveal
The series director Igor Draka believes that the series owes its success primarily to the scriptwriter Andrei Tumarkin.
“If there is no good drama, there is no story. It’s amazing how for seven seasons he keeps surprising us. I hope that we will surprise our dear TV viewers! I think that the main advantage of the Nevsky series is that we are not filming action, but human relationships. We continue the story of the main character Semenov and Foma, they are very interesting in the frame,” said the production director.
The choice of performers deserves special attention. “Many thanks to our casting directors who managed to hit the mark and choose absolutely the right actors! After all, if you make a mistake with the main character, there will be no film. And here wonderful actors even play cross-cutting characters. We have a lot of stuntmen, darkness! The main character even has a stunt double, although Anton Vasiliev tries to perform all the stunts himself. Well, I conduct as a director. The result was a well-coordinated team, an ensemble,” emphasized Igor Draka.
Cupid’s arrows
Charismatic Foma will be especially lucky in the new season. “The theme of love and relationships for my character this season will be explored like never before. He cannot be called an open person who easily makes contact with new people, but it is in this part of the series that Cupid’s arrows will reach Alexei Leonidovich Fomin. I think that our TV viewers will get great pleasure from watching it,” said actor Dmitry Palamarchuk.
Fans of the series “Nevsky” saw different periods of the relationship between Fomin and Semenov. “I know that audiences don’t really like it when a black cat runs between the characters. But there will be no major shocks. Despite the fact that Semyonov and Foma are on opposite sides of the barricades, they will continue to find the strength within themselves so as not to lose their friendship, despite all the trials that befall them. Viewers on social networks write to me that our characters have already become family to them. If in the first season they simply watched the development of the plot outline, interesting twists and turns and detective elements, now they love the project and perceive the heroes of Nevsky as part of their environment. Moreover, they know Foma, Semenov and other characters so well that they can already predict how they will behave and react to this or that situation,” said the actor.
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Everything changes
An interesting transformation occurs throughout the series with Andrei Mikhailov. “My hero is a real gift. At the beginning he was a disgusting scoundrel, but as the role develops he gradually begins to move to the side of the world. When he tries to live by the rules, his entire previous life inevitably collapses, because initially it was built on something completely different. Andrei spends a huge amount of effort and time to finally move away from a vicious lifestyle,” said actor Andrei Gulnev.
Versatile characters and their constant development make the series interesting
“During the filming process, the course of the story is constantly changing, so it is impossible to say for sure whether my hero is bad or good. We take a closer look at our character and look for some kind of golden mean so that, if necessary, we can swing the pendulum in one direction or another. In Nevsky, oddly enough, there are practically no absolutely positive characters. Each hero has his own complex, multifaceted story, which we, the actors, try to reveal. In any case, it will not work to do only positive things; everything is so twisted that after a while one good deed can be followed by several bad ones. You can never know for sure what will prevail at a certain moment. This is the main intrigue of our series,” shared Andrey Gulnev.
Viewers should expect unexpected surprises in the new season from Tatyana Belova, the wife of Pavel Semyonov. “In the new season, my Tanya will have new goals, but the old problems, of course, will not go away. Together with them, a large number of unexpected events will happen, during which Tanya will have time to score many new cones. It seems to me that my heroine never lived simply, she was always accompanied by some difficulties, given the specifics of her work. I can’t reveal the secrets, but I’ll say for sure that, in addition to following the law and helping to catch dangerous criminals, Tanya always fights for love! She is first and foremost a woman, albeit an unusual one, strong-willed and unshakable, a kind of special soldier. But… all women want love, so Tanya will go to great lengths to protect her,” shared actress Victoria Maslova.
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The main thing is action
The new season will not disappoint fans of tricks and unexpected effects. “A lot in the project is based on action. This is necessary in order to switch attention from the dialogues to some sudden movement in the frame, be it fights, falls or explosions. It’s very important to make the scenes look realistic,” said stunt coordinator Vladimir Sevostyanikhin.
According to him, there are many tricks for this. “We put on protection, work with doubles and try our best to achieve the greatest authenticity. The series features car and motorcycle stunts, car chases, falls from heights and interaction with animals. For example, one day we blew up an electric scooter. A whole series was built on this: a batch of defective electric scooters explodes, causing many people to die. We took a scooter, put a charge into it and when the actor rode it, the scooter flew into the air. Of course, this is all quite safe; injuries in such a case are unacceptable. If there are injuries, then the trick was performed incorrectly,” emphasized Vladimir Sevostyanikhin.
For greater realism, many stunts are performed without stuntmen.
“I try to use the actors themselves more often. Exceptions include general plans and technically complex moments. For example, actors always perform fights on their own,” said the stunt coordinator. It happens that performing stunts is not easy for the actors themselves. “In the seventh season there are many emotional scenes, difficult both mentally and physically. Once I spent the whole day performing action scenes and stunts, I was cool and strong, but at some point I got scared of a dead rat and ran away screaming,” actress Victoria Maslova shared a funny incident.
However, all difficulties, according to her, fade at the sight of delight in the eyes of the audience. I really hope it will be the same this time. Moreover, in the new season, new locations await us all, for which the film crew organized an expedition to the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
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