Izvestia found out the details of the filming of the series “Evil”. The premiere will take place on REN TV on May 1. Most of the 12-episode historical detective story based on the novel of the same name by Eduard Khrutsky was filmed in Belarus.
The action begins in 1979.
The time was marked by a series of high-profile processes exposing the heads of large enterprises and officials. Izvestia journalist Yuri Eltsov (Daniil Strakhov) and his friend investigator Igor Anokhin (Evgeny Kharitonov) are investigating a high-profile case of the robbery of a famous ballerina. Eltsov turns for help to his older brother Igor (Andrey Chernyshov), the former head of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department. But the murder is only a thread leading to a tangle of more daring and brutal crimes, in which officials from the Central Committee apparatus are involved.
Moscow was played by Minsk in the series.
“I didn’t want to spend a huge amount of money and time trying to come to an agreement with someone that a car would pass here and this street should be blocked, so we were forced to leave for Minsk. We wanted to make a movie so that viewers who remember those times would know that we worked professionally,” Alexey Muradov shared with Izvestia.
The editorial office of the Izvestia newspaper was filmed at the Kirov Plant in Minsk. The editor-in-chief's office was set up in a room decorated with wood panels.
The “Evil” team knows how to turn a plant into an editorial office and a gangster lair in the catacombs of a bomb shelter, where there is now a spare parts warehouse. And with the help of artists, a prison was made from the old fortress in Bobruisk.
We looked for things from the past at flea markets and bought them on Avito. But it turned out that in Belarus there are still factories that produce clothes a la the USSR. There, the artists bought a batch of blue sweatpants for the actors.
Read more in the exclusive material from Izvestia:
The capital is there: how Minsk became Moscow in the TV series “Evil”
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