Parisians (TV series)

One of the Russian villages in the remote province is called Paris.

Disappointed in the capitals are coming to this village: a former deputy, a former official, a once popular pop singer, a businessman with a criminal background, a disgruntled scientist, a fitness trainer abandoned by her lover ... All of them were once residents of the village and now return home ...

1st series

A businessman with a criminal inclination of Alexander Kudashov ( Igor Bagolei ) has work days - there is a shootout. He decides, having taken two of his guards, Igor and Vlad, to go to Paris for a couple of months - they say, it’s quieter there. Investigator Styopa Melnikov ( Vladimir Sychev ) reports to his boss, Major Sedov ( Vadim Andreev ), about how Kudashov (called Alexander Nevsky) was disassembled with the bandits of the Ramazan group. Stepan offers to immediately arrest Kudashov, but Sedov convinces him that now there is no evidence according to Kudashov, so he will have to be quickly released. Kudashov acquires a pair of Chevrolet-Niva cars and leaves his assistant ( Valentin Golubenko ) on the farm.

Businessman Alexei Kostrov ( Vyacheslav Kulakov ) cannot do business in a company or in a family. In his own underwear trading company, someone works against him, and Kostrova’s wife Lucien ( Ksenia Buravskaya ) is the mistress of the worst competitor, the criminal authority of Sysoyev ( Yuri Sherstnev ).

The deputy of the Supreme Council, Leonid Trofimovich Rudnev ( Mikhail Yanko ), is also going to Paris, to take a break from the hustle and bustle and at the same time raise money for a new election campaign - in fact, the ratings are almost zero.

Singer Dimon ( Vitaly Alshansky ) is quarreling with his producer and is so messy with “plywood” at concerts that at the last he was showered with tomatoes by a few spectators. Since after the concert an investor Sysoev is waiting for him and, obviously, he will demand money, Dimon decides to flee to Paris.

Surgeon Elena Kudryavtseva ( Tatiana Orlova ), tired of the boring work in the Ministry of Health and from her own problems in the family and at work, decides to hide in Paris on a wave of depression.

• Pierre Richard - Mikhail Kuvaldin
• Igor Bagoley - Alexander Frolovich Kudashov, a criminal businessman nicknamed “Sasha Nevsky”
• Alexander Kuzmin - Stupnikov, security guard Kudashova
• Valentin Golubenko - Assistant Kudashova
• Vadim Andreev - Vladimir Pavlovich Sedov, investigator, police major
• Vladimir Sychev - Stepan Melnikov, investigator
• Vyacheslav Kulakov - Alexey Kostrov, businessman
• Ksenia Buravskaya - Lucien Kostrova
• Gennady Mitnik - Kohl, Kostrov's assistant
• Yuri Sherstnev - Sysoev
• Mikhail Yanko - Leonid Trofimovich Rudnev, deputy of the Supreme Council
• Vitaly Alshansky - Dmitry Milyutin, singer "Dimon"
• Tatyana Orlova - surgeon Elena Kudryavtseva
• Amalia Goldanskaya - Alexander Panfyorov
• Elena Zakharova - Nastya Zabavnikova
• Anatoly Kalmykov - Athanasius Luschan
• Oksana Stashenko - Tatiana Luschan
• Natalya Yakovleva - Katerina Selivanova (in credits as Natalya Malinovskaya )
• Sergey Volkov - Zhora Khristoforov
• Vitaly Ponomarev - Selivanov
• Dmitry Chernykh - Plague, Kudashov's childhood friend
• Alexander Chislov - Chumka, Kudashov's childhood friend
• Igor Korobov - Protasov
• Evgenia Bordzilovskaya - Jacqueline Likhodey
• Anton Makarsky - Kuvaldin's grandson, shepherd and budding singer
• Svetlana Ageeva - Shirak
• Lyudmila Kozhaeva - Dumas
• Galina Fedorova - Vasilisa Selivanova
• Victor Mamonov - Danilin, Deputy Head of Administration
• Vladimir Sychev - Melnikov
• Elena Kovalchuk - admin Lola
• Sergey Ilyin - Anton Luschan
• Mikhail Bogdasarov - Pokrovsky
• Valentin Golubenko - Sleeve
• Sergey Astakhov - Vetrov
• Yuri Tsurilo - Victor Stepanovich
• Georgy Martirosyan - Stasov, director of the Spartak team
• Gennady Logofet - Logofet
• Yury Dumchev - Sysoyev's security guard

• The film was shot in the summer and autumn of 2005, filmed in the Tambov region ^[1] . In 2006, the installation and sounding of the film was completed, but it did not come out on the screens. Appeared on sale on DVD discs in 2010 (officially announced the start of sales January 26, 2010) ^[2] .

In 2005, the footballers of the Moscow “Spartak” took part in the filming: Dmitry Alenichev, Denis Boyarintsev, Maxim Kalinichenko, Alexey Zuev and Alexey Rebko. The players abandoned their doubles and actively participated in the work on the most ridiculous stage of the series - a football match with the players of the village of Paris (on the plot), which was held knee-deep in liquid mud.

• Page series on the website of the film company "Focus Film"