Successful Premiere of FILM.UA Project on Inter

On Monday, January 12, FILM.UA project The Hellene successfully premiered on Inter TV channel. Melodramatic series became the TOP-leader of the day with the share of 14.4% among the audience aged 18-54 in the cities with population 50,000+. Throughout the country the average audience among the citizens older than 18 reached 4 million viewers.

The producers of the project are Victor Mirsky, Anna Bezludna, Egor Benkendorf and also Екаtеrinа Shvets, Olesya Lukyanenko and Anna Skok.

"We got very lucky with the project crew. Three tandems of film directors (Igor Zabara and Matvey Shulgin, Irina Gromozda and Markiyan Kanyuka, Mariya Tkacheva and Vyacheslav Rakovsky) worked on the project. They represented themselves as highly qualified professionals and worked with great responsibility and enthusiasm. Also we got incredibly lucky with the production designer. Vlad Odudenko is an award-winning designer who has been engaged in production of feature films for many years. Last year he had several big premieres, such as Kredens, The Tribe, The Guide and others. However, he agreed to work on 60-episode project and created a stunning scenery. It contained about 60 objects that were constantly changing each other in the same pavilion. Additionally we have a postproduction dream team. Film editors seem to perform miracles sometimes", - comments Olesya Lukyanenko.

It took about 6 months (148 shooting days) to film the project, including preproduction and postproduction of first the first block of episodes. About 40% of the scenes are filmed outdoors. There are approximately 60 locations, including a small provincial town, a city, a village and many others. The rest of the shooting took place in pavilions.

The main characters in The Hellene are played by Olga Grishina, Anton Feoktistov, Olga Sumskaya, Victoria Litvinenko, Alexey Fateev. 

"Our initial goal was to involve the maximum number of Ukrainian actors. Because it is our Ukrainian product: Ukrainian script, local directors, cameramen and the most important - money", - says Екаtеrinа Shvets.

The main storyline of The Hellene tells about a young woman who gets married with a young and ambitious man. However, his influential mother is against their union. 

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