{"id":30674,"date":"2020-11-16T21:57:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T18:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/?p=30674"},"modified":"2020-11-27T17:35:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T14:35:36","slug":"zapad-pokoren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/2020\/11\/16\/zapad-pokoren\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian sensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTo the Lake\u201d is a Russian sci-fi thriller series directed by Nika Award nominee Pavel Kostomarov. It was added to the Netflix catalogue in October 2020. The platform<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kommersant.ru\/doc\/4529272\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> bought <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the series for a record-breaking sum &#8211; $1,5 million. The Russian name of the series is \u201c\u042d\u043f\u0438\u0434\u0435\u043c\u0438\u044f\u201d (Epidemic).<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30676\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30676\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30676 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gg-epidemii.jpg\" alt=\"\u0413\u043b\u0430\u0432\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0433\u0435\u0440\u043e\u0439 \u0441\u0435\u0440\u0438\u0430\u043b\u0430 \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gg-epidemii.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gg-epidemii-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gg-epidemii-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The main character moves to Karelia because of the epidemic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is based on the novel \u2018Vongozero\u2019 by author Yana Vagner. The plot is literally repeating the events of the current pandemic. Life in Moscow has become life-threatening because of the new disease. The main character, accompanied by his family, ex-wife and neighbours, moves to Karelia, to a small island in the middle of a lake.They have a dangerous way to go. Netflix got interested in the series in January, when the pandemic just started.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_54782\"  width=\"840\" height=\"473\"  data-origwidth=\"840\" data-origheight=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c4YXOKMt9R8?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTo the lake\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.ru\/newsroom\/biznes\/411053-rossiyskiy-serial-epidemiya-prodali-netflix-za-rekordnye-15-mln\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ranked the 4-th most watched series in the Netflix rating. Stephen King tweeted about the series: he called it \u201cpretty darn good\u201d and highlighted the excess of snow, cold and vodka in the show. There is even a<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/netflix.fandom.com\/wiki\/To_the_Lake\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fan-page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the series on the Internet.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30677\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30677\" style=\"width: 898px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30677 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Bezymyannyj.jpg\" alt=\"\u0421\u0442\u0438\u0432\u0435\u043d \u041a\u0438\u043d\u0433 \u043d\u0430\u043f\u0438\u0441\u0430\u043b \u0442\u0432\u0438\u0442 \u043e\u0431 \u00ab\u042d\u043f\u0438\u0434\u0435\u043c\u0438\u0438\u00bb\" width=\"898\" height=\"501\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen King\u2019s tweet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is not the first time when Netflix wants to buy a project created by Valeriy Fedorovich and Evgeniy Nikishov. In their <a href=\"https:\/\/meduza.io\/feature\/2020\/10\/12\/epidemiya-superuspeshnyy-rossiyskiy-serial-kotoryy-vyshel-na-netflix\">interview<\/a> to Meduza producers said that they had already refused to sell their projects to Netflix because the terms weren\u2019t beneficial. At first Netflix wanted to pay for \u201cTo the lake\u201d less than the other streaming platform. When the offer was rejected, the company suggested releasing the series with a \u201cNetflix Originals\u201d mark. Products from this category are generally more expensive. After some consideration producers accepted the offer.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Netflix has already purchased more than 40 Russian cartoons, movies and tv shows. Before \u201cTo the lake\u201d was added to the catalogues, the most expensive Russian project on Netflix was \u201cBetter than us\u201d. The series cost one million dollars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>\u201cTo the Lake\u201d is a Russian sci-fi thriller series directed by Nika Award nominee Pavel Kostomarov. It was added to the Netflix catalogue in October 2020. The platform bought the series for a record-breaking sum &#8211; $1,5 million. The Russian name of the series is \u201c\u042d\u043f\u0438\u0434\u0435\u043c\u0438\u044f\u201d (Epidemic). It is based on the novel \u2018Vongozero\u2019 by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/2020\/11\/16\/zapad-pokoren\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Russian sensation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1051,"featured_media":30675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-30674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blank","tag-top","keywords-movie","keywords-entertainment","keywords-russia","size-short","format-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1051"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30883,"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30674\/revisions\/30883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}