Directed by Natalia Merkulova and Alexei Chupov – on TNT series “Crisis tender age” – BBC

Shura Ermakova (Maria Poezzhaeva) learns from a veterinarian, lives with his dad (Fyodor Lavrov), sometimes sees incoming mother (Alexandra child) and hopelessly in love with his teacher Andrey Sergeyevich (Yevgeny Tsyganov). Anya Silkin (Xenia Surkov) studying at MGIMO, trying to achieve something in the arts, but her projects require money, which she elicits from her father, film producer (Maxim Vitorgan), and quickly bored her. Kuzmina Julia (Christine Isaykina) schoolgirl moved to Moscow, to practice your favorite basketball, and live independently. Three girls at the age of 18, they have a whole life ahead, and now -. A lot of the problems that they face, together

On channel TNT starts showing the movie series “Crisis tender age.” One of the producers was Anna Melikyan ( “Star”, “About Love”), and put a picture of Alex and Natalia Merkulova Chupov (prize “Kinotavr” Festival for the film “intimate space”), for which “Crisis …” became a television debut . On the eve of the premiere of “Times” I spoke with the directors of the series, growing up, dill on the screen, and about the difference between working in the cinema and on television

-. Tell us about the “crisis of tender age”

Natalya Merkulova (NM.): about love, youth, about the first time. About borderline
Alex Chupov (Ah.):. This is a film about the line that crosses the man, when a youth enters the youth. Five to adulthood minutes, the time growing up, five minutes after growing up and so on

-. That is about the most difficult period in life

NM:. I think this is really the most difficult period (but delicious), it just so happened that he imposes responsibility then for life. And if a person is somehow difficult growing up and came out of this age are injured, then his life is at an angle to this injuries. Injuries, by the way, there are also all sorts, and enjoyable, including, for example, someone like brunettes, someone – a blonde, and why – is unclear. But it stretches from the very tender age of crisis, the young man happened emotional jam some blonde or brunette left an indelible mark, or, on the contrary, loved blonde, married brunette in protest. With all the girls exactly the same way

– How is your experience growing up 18-year-old heroine

Ah:. This three completely different character.
NM .: Yes, and they have three totally three different scenarios.
Ah .: Shura Ermakova, played by Maria Polezhaeva she dreamer, poetic nature, something like Holden Caulfield from “Catcher in the rye”, but in a skirt.
NM .: or shahnazarovsky “Courier” (a film by Karen Shakhnazarov, 1986 -. “Times»)
Ah .: However, it is the most probably unsophisticated three of them.. Two other girls – business and energetic. Anya Silkin played Xenia Surkov, enterprising, ambitious, mania startups such that every day trying to start some new business.
NM .: If Shura little girl from another century then Silkin – it is an absolute reality today Ambassador
Ah .: A Kuzmina Julia, played by Christina Isaykina, -. this girl athlete. It is specially came to Moscow from Kaluga to play basketball, broke away from the parents moved into a hostel, soon began to live independently
NM .: Julia -. It is actually a normal man in the street, which in this life is easy to get and who always knows what to do.
Ah .: Yes, Julia is not lost. But she still has a lot of success in men, and behind it in our film chasing several characters

-. According to the description it seems for serene path to happiness by three young girls, and in the series they live in such a beautiful picture. This was done deliberately?

NM .: Yes, this is a deliberate approach. We wanted to youth is not held in bleak circumstances. I, for example, generally grown in the taiga village, and studied at the institute and worked in Irkutsk, and here I am, completely homemade baby, suddenly met with obschazhnym lifestyle. Now, arriving in Irkutsk, I see that this hostel – terrible pimped, she already was old. But it seemed to me at the time, that everything in it is multi-colored, all that is beautiful. This property of youth, youth, and so the urban environment around our girls a little bit similar to confetti.
Ah .: This is not a social drama, so do not want to show chernushny environment. On the other hand, when this series was filmed two years ago, Moscow made it possible to avoid the seamy side. Large repairs have not yet begun. Maybe someday these times will come again. In our view, the environment in which there are heroes, there must be a little bit nicer than in real life

-. When viewing a bit hampered glamor series …

NM .: Did we glamorous

-? I thought so …

H .M .: no, we do not think so. But perhaps this feeling because of what we have chosen objects. We did not want to put it bluntly, shovels in the frame, some dull areas. We shot in Chertanovo, which can be a scary area, where around every corner lurks danger, as in the “concrete jungle law.” And in our case Chertanovo -. It is an interesting architecture, where the miracle of hiding behind every corner
Ah .: This may be due to the fact that we grew up in the Soviet Union, which did not It was a country of bright colors, and the country was subdued tones. This gray environment could revive some blue trolley, blue with red packets of milk. And so now people who have grown up in the USSR, any film with very bright colors seem either glamor or Indian cinema. It is very difficult to get used to the colors, it seems that the paint – that’s not real life. But it’s not

-. Now, it seems, all the contrary, they want to show the truth of life. That series “Real boys” – there just the same gray tones and everywhere bad. And with the “Crisis …” was not even clear that the authors of this series make “private parts”, it occurs only around the end of the second series.

.: NM Age of heroes we are not allowed, of course, go to our favorite topic, which we discussed with the audience in the “private parts”, and we, too, is a little confused, when the producer Anna Melikyan series offered us this material. It seemed that this was not our stuff, we have nowhere to turn. Anna is able to work with the age, in his “Mermaid” It takes a person from childhood to adolescence and shows a very complex universe, it is the innocent movie, but does not deprive the innocent of his depth. And our heroine anything like it at first glance, no, it looks like some kind of girly show. But when we started to work on the text, it became clear that all is not easy. At the age interval designated heroines we had to build a whole world, and it was new professional circumstances for us. And they were interesting.
Ah .: As for tin, including erotic, we first thought about it, even tried to shoot such scenes, but then deliberately abandoned them . We understand that such an approach violates the poetic shell material that is like to push erotic scenes, for example, Zoshchenko. It will look false tooth, a completely opportunistic. And why?
NM .: , but we left the sensuality, and the script writers have called for the same thing. Age heroines demanded. At this age, the main circumstances – is the relationship between a girl and a boy

-. Apparently, your show was filmed around the same time with the “Change” Vadim Perelman and “concern” by Boris Khlebnikov – two hits TNT last season. ? You watched these movies

NM .: Yes, it’s two ofigenski series

-. Can you compare the “Crisis middle age “with these serials? What is closer in style, from which more

Ah .: I believe that with the “concern” our film has a roll – in the sense of a certain poetry, there are interesting conversations and interesting vocabulary, but for visual aesthetics and game actors, we all totally different. By “change” we are closer in the game of actors and an ironic component, and on the visual aesthetics of “cheating” a colorful show than “Concerned».
NM .: We must , similar to that on the other – in the sense that, too, tried to “kin” as much as it was possible in the series to show the fabric itself was cine
Ah .: . this is, by the way, the task of this line kinoserialov on TNT, the viewer at first thought that watching a movie

-. you what style is closer to the show looked and was built as a film, serial film or yet that it consisted of separate and almost unrelated episodes?

NM .: You know, right now there really is no such unambiguous divisions . Modern television often uses two types of hybrid – vertical and horizontal fashion story. In our history, there is also topicality, but also in every episode has a theme, is the name of the series, there is also a schematic story – not so hard, of course, as in criminal vertical series
Ah .: <. / b> We are after the “private parts” offered to shoot a variety of series. We are interested in “Crisis …” because we saw it as a specific component of the pilot. Although the task would “deceive” the viewer so that it felt like watching a movie, not a show. Such a task once set himself in the HBO America, then other channels, we have her first set of TNT, gradually adding to supermassovym serials production piece of the product, which is designed for individual audience segments. And we liked the task unexpectedly.
NM .: In addition, at present all the most daring, interesting, provocative happens on television.
Ah .: Here now much more freedom to directors

-. And in the author’s film

NM .: The modern festival of Russian cinema? show that the reality is much varnish, for some reason are afraid to speak even on psychological themes that are within a person, so it seems that the audience is ready to sharp and free expression remained on television.
A. W .: This may be why many directors, including the author’s cinema, now working on the TV series

-. But, on the other hand, “About love” won “Kinotavr “, and then another, and” Golden eagle “has received, albeit unexpectedly

Ah .: « About love. “- this piece goods, in really such a little film.
NM .: there are no films, I would say, not a little, they simply do not.
Ah .: Now the Russian author’s cinema, in our opinion, is gradually changing its face. Apparently, enters a new decade is due to the huge number of the surrounding circumstances. But we do not understand this person
NM .: It scared us even more
Ah .: A TV -.. No . On television – here the example of TNT – still observed moving forward without stopping, development
NM .: Even the producers of TNT -. We have worked with Valery Fedorovich and Eugene Nikishov – called not hide sharp corners: the more acute the angle, the more interesting. And of course, when you find such like-minded people, this is a great happiness

-. That is, you also want sharp corners

.: NM? this is the drama. When there is a question and an answer when sensitive issues cause a chemical reaction in your blood. This is a real movie

-. And this is not enough in the author’s film

NM .: B? this year we saw that, it seems there is a very strong change in trend. And we have to see what will happen next.
Ah .: The feeling that now there is a certain transitional period, the last two or three years. We will see the result of a year or two. Let’s see what it is

-. Now you have something to work

NM .: Anna Melikyan starts almanac? “About love – 2″ five short stories, and one of the stories will be ours. We expect that it will play Anna Mikhalkov, Fedor Lavrov, Yury Kolokolnikov, Lusha Ilyashenko and Alice Khazanov

-. And with the show? The second part of “Crisis …” going to do?

NM .: We are writing to TNT’s new series, but it’s still a secret.
Ah .: A “crisis of tender age” does not depend on us. Because there is great authors.
NM .: Here let them write.
Ah .: And we show this very Artist: this is the world we have created. So happy to take off, and the second part, if we are asked to.