We'll all be there: the first TV series about MFC employees has been released

Ivan Okhlobystin transformed into a former tractor driver, Nikita Shishkin became more relaxed about the bureaucracy, and blogger Alexey Stolyarov tried his hand at acting for the first time. The topical comedy "Window No. 6" was released on the VK Video platform, dedicated to the everyday life of employees of the Zamozha MFC. The project was developed by ANO IRI and the Sentsov Group production center. This is the first story about the masters of certificates, extracts and other documents.

Nikita Shishkin played the main role of the guest from the capital. According to the actor, the project attracted him with a combination of light humor and serious conversation about important things.

"As soon as I opened the script, I immediately realized that it would be equally vital and grotesquely funny," Shishkin said in a conversation with Izvestia. — This is a somewhat stereotypical topic, but we didn't want a banal sitcom, but something with depth and meaning. Through humor, this is achieved faster and more correctly. We even came up with some jokes right on the set, and then we even rewrote the script for them. We are very proud of this.

The actor noted that he had repeatedly encountered bureaucracy and was forced to "rewrite the paperwork five times." But participating in the series helped him to treat such problems easier.

Shishkin is accompanied by Tatiana Timakova, Daniil Bondarenko, Alexandra Vechtomova, Vladimir Dmitriev and Ivan Okhlobystin. Each of them plays an employee of the IFC, who is much better able to cope with his own life and interests than with direct work responsibilities. For example, Lyudmila Timakova's heroine does Tarot cards in her free time. Her son Daniel gives anyone a taxi ride, and former tractor driver Ignat Savelyich is good at everything that does not relate to new technologies. This role was played by Ivan Okhlobystin, who expressed the hope that the project would help viewers see real people with different destinies behind the MFC staff.

— We all regularly use Public Services, but we rarely think that there are real people behind them with their own stories, often very interesting. I hope the series will help show the human face of such a large and complex system as the IFC, and foster the gratitude of citizens to the workers in this field. In addition, employees need to be taught respect for visitors," Okhlobystin said.

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A cameo role was played by blogger Alexey Stolyarov — filming became his first experience in cinema. In an interview with Izvestia, the influencer noted that before participating in Window No. 6, he starred only in Olga Buzova's music videos.

— I really liked the role, although it was difficult, but the actors are kind of crazy! I do not know where they got so much energy to shoot, because everything is different for bloggers. We usually have a maximum of two takes. But there are 20 takes for one short scene at once. I take my hat off to the actors and I think they are great fellows, professionals and generally iron men," he told Izvestia.

The special charm of the story is given by the fact that this is almost the first domestic project about the everyday life of the MFC. As general producer Tatiana Oganova told Izvestia, there are a lot of screen works in Russia about a wide variety of professions, but almost no one talks about those who help to draw up complex documents.

— Already on the set, it became clear how recognizable and familiar this world is to people. We built a decoration for the MFC, and the locals believed in what was happening so much that they began to visit us on their own business. In one episode, we have a goat. Passersby were constantly wondering why she was at the MFC, taking pictures of her, and we tried to keep the intrigue alive. And when the news about the registration of chickens appeared in September, we realized that we seemed to have begun to predict the agenda," Tatiana said.

The film crew presented the familiar but difficult world of documents through the stories of specific people. This approach allowed us to show that even in a strict bureaucratic system there is a place for warmth and caring.