On kite in the nhancan

On June 11, the Russian-Vietnamese thriller "High season" starts on the platforms of Start and Okko

The missing girl, Kidalovo, a sea of ​​kite, motorcycles, visitors and local gangs at exotic Asian resorts. This is not Yevpatoria, baby.

“High season” is a peppy action with allusions for the “bright future” and “steeply cooked” John Wu or on “cards, money, two trunks” Guy Richie.

Everything will begin harmlessly, in a channelial one. Young couple - cardiologist Misha (Pavel Popov) and “just Beauty” Anya (Anna Zavtur) - enjoys the last days of vacation on the sunny coast of the Vietnamese Nhazhang. And the permanent operator of Stas Ivanova Stepan Beshkurov (“King and the Jester”, “Yuzz”, “Germans”) and his camera enjoy dazzling open species and model appearance of Anna Gutur (“Vacation in October”, “Germans”, “Cicadas”). Crabs are eaten, the wine has been drunk, the suitcases are almost collected ...

The resort idyll collapses when Sasha Sugar (Arthur Beschastnoy), the former lover of Ani, whom she considered the dead (or disappeared, does not matter, unexpectedly appears). And with him and his criminal gang. After this meeting, the "former" girl will disappear. Without waiting for help from the local police, Misha himself will take up the search and get involved in the cycle of criminal events: dark transactions and scams, shootings and chases. He is helped by the captain of the People’s Army of Vietnam - the fearless Tao (Vietnamese actress Siu Nguyen), who returned to her city, familiar to tears, to understand the circumstances of the death of the younger sister - she also suddenly disappeared. Gradually, Mikhail begins to understand that he did not know his girlfriend at all.

White-golden sands and azure water of the South Chinese Sea, shimmering with all shades of the green hills, tropical islands, gorges and jungle in the middle of the bay, beach parties, lively night streets of the megalopolis.

Among the trump cards of criminal action are the exotic of local landscapes and textures. Extreme kaitesurfing (the whole sky over the bay is dotted with air snakes controlled by surfing), eternal summer, a crazy celebration of disobedience, surfed party and free Kiteri village, Chinese triad, crazy money and fake money, a bunch of trunks. And the porn, which is removed underground in the neighborhood. The Mammary Sugar group (arthur Besweight with a chemical curl) is involved in fraudulent adventures and dangerous criminal operations. He decides, for example, to promote a Russian sucker with a briefing of the cache, buying fake brand watches. And at the same time they are junk with drugs. They have complete bounty and permissiveness here. The most amazing thing is that the beloved and beloved Mishina Bride Anna Andreevna, born in 1999, with them at the same time.

Filming took place in 2024 in the cities of Vietnam - Fanranga, Nhazhang and densely populated areas of Hoshimin. A year and a half of dense work. Director - from the presenters: Stas Ivanov ("Yuzz", "Germans", "One day").

For all the density of events, a colorful dazzling sunny picture, the strong directing of the experienced Stas Ivanov - the story itself does not seem either exotic or surprising.

Ivanov better succeeds in plots based on good literature (as “Germans”, for example, according to the novel by Alexander Terekhov). Here he wrote the script himself. Perhaps in the next series, the authors will be able to charge the story with new energy and the unexpected arches of the heroes.

The high season is an international project, in addition to Vietnam in the credits, Ireland is listed.

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