21 # First Closed Screening…

The film was edited and shown privately, only to a select few, at the Omsk Fortress cinema. But this didn’t exactly satisfy everyone. Opinions were divided. Pavel himself felt sorry for this, because he could have chosen the material from this film, but it was better to leave it as is and move on. Most of the others were disappointed, suggesting a different approach—to shoot everything differently. That is, to start over and make a different film.

Pavel made the following decision: before winter finally sets in, he urgently needs to find new actors, a new crew, and try to finish filming properly.

At the same time, another casting was being held – either for the second part of the Underworld, or for the same first film – then Pavel invited new ones, namely – Klim Patrikeev, Gleb Shnaidmiller, Tatyana Kurochkina and others.

He assigned Tatyana Kurochkina as his employee for working with actors.

But this whole story ended very quickly, nothing worked out, complete disappointment, useless attempts to film something worthwhile…

But still, one plot turned out pretty good…

Two guys, supposedly trainee journalists, arrive in the village. They go into the catacombs and into the village house where the couple who wanted a normal family life lived… but they themselves stumbled upon mysticism…

By the way, we’d like to add that Pavel Latushkin and the Omsk Film Studio (the name of the future brand; the company needed to be registered, but for now Pavel worked in filmmaking under a registered sole proprietorship) had small sponsors, patrons, and investors who supported the director’s vision and wanted everything to work out. Therefore, there were some small funds spent on filming. But there was a catastrophic shortage for sets, special effects, and actors’ fees.