28 # Filming of the first series begins…

Pavel Latushkin’s script has an unusual feature: the series’ plot doesn’t focus solely on main or supporting characters; for Pavel Latushkin, everyone is a main character. But if someone decided to skip filming, or not show up at all, then yes, either unknowingly and carelessly, they either left the project, or Pavel wrote fewer scenes, or they said goodbye to filming altogether.

But Pavel never intentionally cut back on filming for those who had little participation; everyone was equal and the roles were written equally for everyone.

The series began filming in a city dorm, and the plot was about how mystical phenomena began to happen to a teenage girl: she saw dreams, hallucinations and illusions occurred, and most interestingly, Pavel introduced events from the film Cursed into the plot of the series.

The cast of the winter 2011-2012: Yulia Mikheeva, Anara Nurbaeva, Igor Suppes, Vitaly Orover, Vitaly Ivlev, Natalia Taran (starred in an episode) and others…

So, they filmed about 10 episodes of the first season over a couple of winter months, and when Pavel started making the first edits and then invited Natalia Taran to watch the pilot, Natalia said that it was no good… a colorful main character was needed, someone the audience would follow. And Pavel chose the leading role as the aspiring actress Yulia Mikheeva (whom you can even see in the frame that she is afraid of the camera).

No one is offended, everything is correct, even Yulia herself agreed that it is necessary to prepare professionally and then shoot confidently.

Thus, Pavel Latushkin and Natalia Taran teamed up for the entire night and wrote the pilot episode of the series.

At this point it was already January 2012!