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Ukrainian Hide and Seek conquering Europe

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• 25.06.2019

This Wednesday, June 26 at 2:30 PM Eastern European premiere of Hide and Seek will take place in Budapest under the aegis of the biggest Eastern European content market NAPTE on June 22-27.

Besides, the global distributor of the series ZDF Enterprises (Germany) has scheduled a show case for the series.  

“We are excited to have HIDE AND SEEK officially premiere at NATPE Budapest. This is the first Ukrainian show to bow in there. CEE region is hugely important for us and I believe even the most discerning buyers will be surprised by the quality of our storytelling and production values. HIDE AND SEEK is a bold and complex project the likes of which have not yet been produced in our region”, says Kateryna Vyshnevska, Head of Development and Co-productions and Co-producer of HIDE AND SEEK, FILM.UA Group.

Just a reminder: in April, Hide and Seek overcame huge competition and made it to the ten finalists of , MIPDrama Buyers Summit competition of the most expected series projects at the market. Hide and Seek is the first ever Ukrainian TV show presented at this prestigious international contest of TV films.  

On July 2, the first episode screening and case study of the TV show will take place at SERIESSERIES; we’ll tell you more about that shortly.

Director: Irina Gromozda

Producers: Viktor Mirsky, Olesya Lukyanenko, Andrey Rizvanyuk, Kateryna Vyshnevska

Cameraman: Sergey Krutko

Genre: criminal drama

Cast: Yulia Abdel Fattakh, Pyotr Rykov, Vyacheslav Dovzhenko, Yakov Kucherevsky, Aleksandr Kobzar, Valeriy Legin, Yevgenia Gladiy, Aleksandr Sokolov, Vladimir Zayets, and others  

Production: FILM.UA

Distributor: ZDF Enterprises

Synopsis: In a regular apartment, a father and his daughter are playing hide-and-seek. Closing his eyes, the father starts counting. One… Two… Three… Four… Five… He starts looking for the girl but he DOESN’T FIND HER. The apartment is locked from inside, and during the game neither the father nor the girl left it. Understanding that the girl has disappeared for real, the father calls the police. Later, a video appears on the Net where the disappeared girl is holding a sign with a mysterious combination of numbers. It is obvious that the child has been kidnapped, and this is just the FIRST VICTIM in someone’s complicated and cruel game.