Three friends - Nikita (Vyacheslav Chepurchenko), Artemy (Vadim Dubrovin) and Denis (Pavel Komarov) - almost finished work on a mobile application that should “blow up” the Internet (a neural network, no less, is able to find users a perfect match). The investor (Igor Vernik) promises, as soon as everything is ready, to pay a substantial amount to young people for the development of the project. But the case intervenes in the fate of the startup: right from the presentation of the project, young Muscovites get to the military enlistment office, and from there they are sent to alternative service in the village of Zhuki, Saratov Region.
Now the application, which could be completed in a few hours, can not even be downloaded from the Internet: in the Beetles, fish are caught better than the network, and by the end of the day a violent local resident burns the heroes computers at all. In the appendage, police Maslov immediately finds the trinity time-consuming exercises. Now Nikita is a computer science teacher, Denis is an assistant veterinarian, and Artemy is a postman.
The adventures of Muscovites are devoted to 16 episodes. Work on the project lasted three years, and the filming process took 64 days.
“Beetles” is a very bright series and a colorful place: viewers will be shown tables laid out in a festive open-air atmosphere, drinking the advance of handymen, one-story houses with floral curtains and persistent rural hospitality. The mood will be supported by the soundtrack straight from the village holidays - modern Russian pop and hits of the nineties mixed up.
In this fantastic place, one incident after another occurs: Denis dozed off at the cemetery, and the local old woman mistook him for a walking dead man; the priest became worried when he heard the mobile phone left in the bell tower by the main characters. But the policeman can not bring anything out of emotional balance - he does not even close the door to the bullpen and is not worried about the missing gun.
TNT General Producer Vyacheslav Dusmukhametov considers the topic of the return from the world of gadgets to real life particularly relevant.
“I think it’s important sometimes to pull yourself and return to reality, to break away from the phone and computer. Many people cannot afford this, since they must be in constant access 24 hours a day, and if so, then you can look at this life from the outside, ”the producer said.
The name of the sitcom sends spectators not only to the scene, but also to the circumstances in which Muscovites find themselves - on the slang of programmers, bugs (“bugs”) mean errors in the code. And in the very first days in the service, friends manage to “break firewood”: Artemy’s lost bag with a pension for the elderly, Denis’s negotiations with the investor literally fall under the cow’s tail. Nikita is more lucky: he becomes a sitter and helps Maslov get the rank of senior lieutenant.
- Frame from the series "Beetles"
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However, even after all these adventures, the heroes will not come a step closer to the release of the application. But this fact no longer worries them so much: if financial well-being depends on the ill-fated program, then life and health depend on the ability to establish contact with local people. And most of the children’s actions so far turn into ambiguities, which the neighbors interpret not in favor of the new arrivals.
Vyacheslav Chepurchenko - the performer of the role of the cheerful Nikita - told RT that he would cope with on-screen difficulties in real life.
“Everything is very simple: either you start working and patience appears, and you try - or nothing comes out already. I have everything in working capacity and working capacity, and everything is in order with patience. In the village - I have examples - I already lived, I know how everything is there (arranged. - RT ). Therefore, he would have survived 100%, ”the actor is sure.
For the whole trio of Chepurchenko - Dubrovin - Komarov, these roles are the first main ones in the movie. The company for newcomers on the set was Vladimir Epifantsev (Lyuty, Escape), Anatoly Zhuravlev (Gangster Petersburg 8: Terminal, Brother), Maxim Lagashkin (Geographer drank the globe, Call DiCaprio!) , as well as Viktor Bychkov, whose new image of father Alexander can remind the viewer Kuzmich from the series of films “Features of the National (hunting / fishing / politics)”.