The Neighbours

  • Genre: melodrama
  • Type: series
  • Year: 2010
  • Status: completed
  • Production: FILM.UA Group, PRIMA-FILM
  • Running time: 275 х 26 min

It is the first serial in Ukraine made in a format of social melodrama. A dramaturgy of social melodrama is based on the very close approaching to life’s realities. The serial is set not just against the background of the vital events; moreover, news is becoming an integral part of the plot. The heroes are visiting the concerts of stars, discussing sport events and the Olympics, fighting with the crisis, surviving the second wave of flue, keeping watch over the political life in Ukraine and in world…

The heroes of a serial are the neighbours; these are the five families living in the same riser blocks of flats in a common Kyiv’s «stalinka» building. People of different ages, professions, outlooks on life live close to each other; their relations are not always easy, but very interesting. Each family has its joys and sorrows…

 

Director: Oleg Filippenko
Producer: Yuriy Morozov, Victor Mirsky
Director of photography: Pavel Nebera
Cast:

Polina Voynevych, Serhey Derevyanko, Alexandr Ignatusha, Lidia Vovkun, Eugeniy Kaporin, Igor Antonov