Actor Ruslan Sasin
As Ruslan Sasin, who played the role of programmer Andrei Kholodov in the TV series “Sled,” said , during his work he practically never left the hero’s office. Therefore, every departure from the work site was a real holiday for him. What he remembers most is how he had to rescue members of the Federal Service who were taken hostage.
The filming of the series “Next” took place in the winter and there were very severe frosts. It was necessary to climb a slippery ladder to the roof of the house and install a listening device there. I had to do everything myself, without the help of a stunt double.
Star roles
Andrei Lavrov is an actor who has been on his way to fame for quite some time. His path to fame began with episodic roles. Fans can see their idol in such famous television projects as “The Young and the Evil,” “Kulagin and Partners,” and “Brothers in Different Ways.” These series did not give the failed opera singer popularity, but allowed him to gain invaluable experience.
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Long-awaited fame came to Lavrov after he played one of the leading roles in the television project “Trace”. The series introduces viewers to an experimental laboratory, the main task of whose employees is to help operatives in investigating important cases.
“SOBR” is another famous television project in which Andrey starred. The actor admits that it was not easy for him to prepare for filming; he had to spend two months at a military base, undergoing special training. The efforts invested by the young man fully paid off, as the series, the first episode of which was released at the end of 2010, acquired a huge number of fans.
In addition to the above films, Lavrov’s filmography includes such TV series and film projects as “One Day There Will Be Love,” “Loot,” and “Urgent to the Room.”
Olga Koposova
Olga Koposova as police colonel, head of the FES, Galina Nikolaevna Rogozina . A woman with an inner core, strict and demanding in her work. Has a sense of humor and can sometimes defuse a tense situation in a team. This role brings the actress great popularity and recognition from the audience.
Koposova continues to act in other films: “Happy Together” (character Anzhelika Maksimova), “Date” (as Moloch’s wife), “In Ri. Due to constant employment, problems began in family life and, as a result, divorce. But the actress’s career continues to take off and now a new project “Gardener” has appeared.
Olga is very afraid of heights and therefore there were some inconveniences during the filming. Although, as soon as he takes a step onto the site, all phobias and fears disappear, and the work begins to boil. Colleagues always showed special interest in the actress. Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and Alexander Abdulov tried to court and show all sorts of signs of attention. But for Koposova, work always came first.
Experimental assistant
FES was once created only as a specific experiment. Its team is able to train young specialists, test new equipment and provide serious support to certain other intelligence services in solving crimes. The FES laboratory is equipped with the latest technology. This is how the series “Trace” was originally conceived; the actors and the roles they played perfectly conveyed the entire atmosphere and human relationships within each story.
Each member of her team is a talented, unique specialist in their field. The main task of the service employees is to help the investigation and direct it along the right, correct trail; study all the evidence provided, choosing exactly the one that is most important and necessary at the moment, which will be necessary to determine the true culprit. This is how the actors and roles of “Trace” create and put together these stories. Every day, all employees work literally tirelessly so that not a single criminal escapes punishment, so that not a single crime remains unsolved.
Vladimir Tashlykov as police major
Vladimir Tashlykov played Nikolai Petrovich Kruglov, police major, deputy head of the FES . Engaged in analytical analysis of crimes, takes part in interrogations. A versatile character, interesting and witty, ironic and impulsive.
We can see this actor in the films “Pilot of International Airlines”, “The Taste of Pomegranate” (the character Stepanych, the hostel caretaker), “The Color of Bird Cherries” (in the role of Fyodor Vasilyevich). “Trace” was approved for the series on the first try. Thanks to his talent, experience and deep inner world, this actor, one of the few, immediately fit the plot of the film.
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TV series "Trace"
Directors: Armen Harutyunyan-Eletsky, Petr Krotenko, Salavat Vakhitov, Radu Krihan, Vsevolod Aravin, Igor Kechaev, Yuri Kharnas, Roman Ivanov, Harutyun Dzhinanyan, Olga Nesterova, Igor Romashchenko, Vladimir Panzhev, Gennady Kurlaev, Kamil Zakirov, Ilya Belostotsky, Andrey Razumovsky (junior), Maria Zhukovskaya-Ryazanova, Aisyuak Yumagulov, Igor Tverdokhlebov, Viktor Cheprasov, Sergey Borchukov, Dmitry Panchenko, Konstantin Frolov, Mikhail Zhernevsky, Sergey Tereshchuk, Mikhail Kalmykov, Yuri Muzyka, Natalya Titova, Alexey Kulichkov, Svyatoslav Vlasov, Dmitry Tikhon, Ivan Savenkov, Rustam Urazaev, Natalia Mikryukova, Vitaly Gulmasyan, Dmitry Yurchenko, Georgios Karayannidis, Andrey Mizonov, Roman Gapanyuk, Gabriela Chernyak. Operators: Oleg Kirichenko, Andrey Kapranov, Alexey Karpukhin, Maxim Fedorin, Egor Surovtsev, Dmitry Borisov, Ilya Pugachev, Anton Isaev, Denis Makarov, Ruslan Shapiro. Russia. Production: TeleROMAN. 2007-2020
The series “Trace” is the hard, everyday work of employees of the Federal Expert Service.
The Russian crime series "Trace", the Russian analogue of the American popular series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", began to talk about employees of a fictional organization - the Federal Expert Service (FES) and began broadcasting on Channel One on September 3, 2007, and on September 5, 2011 migrated to Channel Five, where he later received permanent residence, and the show time was chosen so that you could watch the series after work, enjoying the excellent performances of the actors.
The script for the series “Next” began to be written and continued later “at the request of the workers” and the high ratings of Pavel Peskov, Alexander Shuravin, Asya and Alexey Demidov, Raf Gurevich, Kirill Pletner, the honorary director’s chair was taken by Armen Harutyunyan-Eletsky, Pyotr Krotenko, Salavat Vakhitov, Vsevolod Aravin, Kamil Zakirov and others. The duration of each of the 930 episodes (shooting is currently ongoing) was 30-40 minutes and was an independent investigation story, which was convenient and made it possible to watch the brainchild of the movie from any episode, even if the previous ones were missed.
Premiere: September 3, 2007 (channel 1).
Heroes of the series: Galina Rogozina (Olga Koposova) – FES colonel. Nikolai Kruglov (Vladimir Tashlykov) - major, Rogozina’s deputy. Sergei Maisky (Pavel Shuvaev) - GRU major. Valentina Antonova (Anna Dankova) is a pathologist. Ivan Tikhonov (Evgeniy Kulakov) – biologist, hacker. Tatyana Belaya (Olga Zeiger) is a ballistics and weapons specialist. Pyotr Romashin (Vladimir Sveshnikov) is a professor-pathologist. Konstantin Lisitsyn (Georgy Teslya-Gerasimov) - police major, senior detective. Alena (Marianna Kataeva) is a barmaid and office manager. Kotov Konstantin Sergeevich (Andrey Lavrov) - police captain. Oksana Amelina (Anastasia Gulimova) is a senior police lieutenant. Boris Selivanov (Oleg Valkman) is a pathologist. Tatyana Belaya (Olga Zeiger) is a ballistic trace scientist, police captain. Daria Maksimova (Tatyana Isakova) is a programmer, chemist. Igor Vladislavovich Shustov (Sergei Pioro) - police captain, ballistics-tracerologist, detective. Sergey Belozerov (Oleg Osipov) - programmer, biologist. Ekaterina Gordeeva (Olga Nedovodina) - police major, senior detective. Alla Semenchuk (Anastasia Gruzdeva) - assistant. Yulia Aleksandrovna Sokolova (Yulia Vaishnur) is a police captain and detective officer. Elena Shustova (Elena Golovizina) - senior police lieutenant, programmer, wife of Igor Shustov. Oksana Grigorievna Amelina (Anastasia Gulimova) - senior police lieutenant, programmer. Anna Shmeleva (Valeria Skorokhodova) is a police captain, ballistics and trace specialist. Andrey Morozov (Vladimir Smirnov) is a senior police lieutenant, biologist programmer. Pavel Anatolyevich Granin (Stanislav Erklievsky) - police captain, detective. Andrey Kholodov (Ruslan Sasin) - police captain, programmer. Margarita Sergeevna Vlasova (Nina Gogaeva) is a police captain and detective. Stepan Danilov (Sergei Kovalenko) is a police captain and detective. Roman Evgenievich Aristov (Vladislav Malenko) - police major, senior detective. Daria Gordeeva (Irina Medvedeva) - laboratory assistant, replaced Ivan Tikhonov. Victoria Gromova (Elena Nikitina) - programmer, replaced Ivan Tikhonov. Gennady (Vasily Raksha)
About the heroes
Casting for the project was very long and difficult, the actors for filming in the series were carefully selected, they had to match the image as faithfully as possible so that the viewer would really believe that this is an unhappy woman, this is a murderer, this is a maniac, this is an oligarch... On filming of the series and the actors - the leading roles and supporting characters did not depict hectic activity in an empty room, but under the guidance of real professionals in their field, it was for this purpose that real forensic experts and criminologists were hired, the actors mastered modern microscopes, physical devices and medical instruments, studied Take fingerprints with tape like professional detectives. Trainings for actors were organized not only by ballistics specialists or forensic experts, but also by pathologists, because employees of a special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - the Federal Expert Service, equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and specializing in solving complex and complicated crimes - forensic experts, doctors, biologists, ballists, programmers , pathologists are true professionals in their field, capable of solving the most complicated crime.
The difficult service was led by Doctor of Medical Sciences, Colonel Galina Rogozina, also known as actress Olga Koposova. FES Colonel Galina Rogozina, a widow who lost her husband in Chechnya, completely devoted her life to the laboratory, which became her favorite brainchild, preferred to keep a distance from her subordinates, but after communicating with the boss, FES employees were ready to work without days off or lunch breaks. There was a very large casting for the role of Rogozina; the creators were looking for an intelligent, beautiful, but strict woman, so that the audience could believe that she was capable of not only leading people, but also attracting attention to herself. Olga Koposova at first doubted, did not know whether she could cope with such a difficult role: “And I, of course, was pleased, I don’t know how it happened - whether it was an exact hit on me, on my character, facial expressions, gestures, but Maybe I tried so hard because I was nervous. In fact, everyone told me with one voice that the hit was 100%! And they can’t even imagine another Rogozin. It’s nice, that’s why I’m holding on to this role, I love my character and this series.” Olga Igorevna Koposova Kruglova was born on March 28, 1970, graduated from the Moscow College of Music, and began acting in films in 1989.
Nikolai Kruglov, actor Vladimir Tashlykov, is a major, Rogozina’s deputy, who did not participate in laboratory research, but preferred to work more and more at crime scenes and participate in interrogations. Major Kruglov, an experienced operative, was a rather tough person who had his own vision of work and was ready to defend it despite his titles and ranks. Vladimir Tashlykov was approved for the role of Kruglov on the first attempt: “Of course, the business that the person was involved in left an imprint on his character. And the fact that my hero worked in the FES, and before that he served in the police, could not but affect him. The work certainly influenced the manner of communication and interaction of people within the FES. Most likely, due to a number of characteristics of each of the employees, a powerful team has emerged, capable of not only performing the work, but also defending its position of service.” Nikolai Kruglov was the former lover of his boss, Galina Rogozina, and was desperately trying to return her old feelings for him. Tashlykov Vladimir Sergeevich was born on September 4, 1956, graduated from GITIS, acting with teacher D.G. Livnev, worked at the theater. Lensoveta, in the Drama Theater of the city of Noginsk. Vladimir Tashlykov - “Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.”
Sergei Maisky, actor Pavel Shuvaev, is a GRU major who had a serious combat background and a political position: he went through Afghanistan, two Chechen campaigns and a bunch of special operations. Sergei Maisky, a master of disguise and a lover of working undercover, had an excellent sense of humor and tried never to lose heart. A good-natured “live” and a mischievous hooligan in one person, Major Maisky knew all the “ins and outs”, so he could always come to the aid of everyone in time, which often promised him benefits, which he never refused, because: “wife, children... " Sergei Maisky loved his work, he was confident that someday he could become the head of the laboratory, however, he did not bother. He was like a watchdog: don’t touch him, don’t touch his loved ones, avoid the yard he was guarding... And his yard is the legal field of the Russian Federation. He knew how to love and forgive, he knew how to “pump up” his energy so much that he seemed extremely tough, perhaps even cruel...
Shuvaev Pavel Viktorovich was born on April 23, 1977, graduated from vocal courses at the Moscow Conservatory. Tchaikovsky and Alena Rozhenko’s theater studio, worked at the New Adam theater and Sergei Mikulsky’s show, in 1999 he gathered like-minded people into the group “OddisS”, and became its leader and vocalist; in 2008, the album “Young Gods” was released with a presentation at the same name festival in St. Petersburg.
Valentina Antonova, actress Anna Dankova, is a pathologist. This pleasant and charming woman was engaged in a completely unfeminine job - she examined and autopsied corpses, but such work did not make her callous and cynical - she even treated the objects of autopsy with sympathy, pitied them. The role of Valentina Antonova was played by Anna Dankova, a professional actress who plays in the Commonwealth of Taganka Actors Theater: “Of course, she was similar to me in some ways. Unfortunately, we, as actors, have no room to expand on any life principles and beliefs of our characters, but Antonova has a family that was behind the scenes the whole time. This is probably why we were very similar: I also have a family and even a child, but I try not to bother anyone about this. I didn’t come up with any other Antonova, it’s just that for me Valentina was quite an integral and at the same time soft, feminine person.” Dankova Anna Vasilyevna was born on November 10, 1974 in the village of Tatishchevo, Saratov region, graduated from the Saratov State Conservatory. L.V. Sobinova - theater department.
Tikhonov Ivan Fedorovich, actor Evgeny Kulakov, a biologist by training, often conducted biochemical research at the FES, was invited to the FES by Rogozina Galina Nikolaevna herself, and at the same time he was released by her from under investigation for transferring funds from the accounts of bankers and oil companies , a 25-year-old computer genius hacker lost his sister due to drugs, which is why he took the path of crime (Ivan transferred the money he received to drug treatment clinics). The cheerful Ivan Tikhonov treated himself with irony, knew how and loved to laugh at himself, working in a team brought him pleasure, and spoke calmly and as equals with his superiors. The role of the talented hacker Ivan Tikhonov was played by the Hermitage Theater actor Evgeny Kulakov, who in real life was not friendly with high technology; the role came as a complete surprise for the actor: he got into the project when all the actors had already been approved. Kulakov Evgeniy Aleksandrovich was born on August 17, 1980, in 2001 he successfully graduated from the Theater School. Boris Shchukin, course of Alexander Shirvindt , since 2001 - actor at the Hermitage Theater.
Tatyana Belaya, actress Olga Zeiger, is a specialist in ballistics and weapons, charming, airy, smiling - the soul and angel of the entire laboratory, open and sociable, relaxed, not afraid to seem funny, and at the same time she knew her worth very well. Tatyana Belaya was a master of sports and the current champion of Russia in skeet shooting (in which she continued her father’s work), she could never sit still. Zeiger Olga Mikhailovna was born on March 27, 1984, graduated from GITIS in 2005, works at the Praktika theater.
Pyotr Sergeevich Romashin, actor Vladimir Sveshnikov, professor-pathologist. Sveshnikov Vladimir Ivanovich was born on December 11, 1946, graduated from GITIS, teacher - Efros A.V., worked at the Russian Theater on Pokrovka, Lipetsk Drama Theater. L.N. Tolstoy, Tomsk Regional Drama Theatre, Moscow Drama Theater "Benefit".
Konstantin Lisitsyn, actor Georgy Teslya-Gerasimov, is a police major, senior detective, Sokolova’s lover. Teslya-Gerasimov Georgy Vladimirovich was born on August 1, 1977 in the city of Nizhneudinsk, Irkutsk region, in 2001 he graduated from the St. Petersburg University of Culture and Arts (Rostov branch) - Faculty of Acting and Theater School. Boris Shchukin , since 1998 - actor of the Rostov Youth Theater.
Kotov Konstantin Sergeevich, actor Andrei Lavrov - police captain, operative, good analyst, owned all types of weapons, was a master of sports in boxing. A tough professional, he hated criminals and was ready to sacrifice himself to achieve his goal. The “bad cop” was paired with Lisitsyn, Captain Kotov was a good friend, a romantic, although it was difficult to guess it from his appearance, he was not married, a knight by nature, a favorite of women, he sang beautifully and was versed in classical music. Lavrov Andrey Mikhailovich was born on December 24, 1976, graduated from GITIS, professional vocalist, actor of the Moscow Drama Theater "Benefit", candidate master of sports "Powerlifting".
Alena, actress Marianna Kataeva, is a charming, pleasant barmaid and office manager, she always wanted to work in the operational group, but fate decreed otherwise. Kataeva Marianna Sergeevna was born on August 20, 1958, graduated from GITIS.
Fresh characters periodically appeared among the FES employees to temporarily replace the actors who were falling from fatigue: the filming of the series went on without days off or a lunch break for several years. And even the second panel of experts, which had to be introduced into the series literally by the second season, did not help much - the actors still did not have time to rest properly.
Such a character, first of all, was Oksana Amelina, actress Anastasia Gulimova, a senior police lieutenant, the daughter of a police major and a professor of philology, a beauty and an excellent student. When the girl turned 16, her father died at the hands of criminals, then Oksana was already applying to the famous Baumanka (she showed computer talent early), but after the tragedy she decided to enroll in police school. And since talent, as we know, cannot be hidden in a bag, Oksana was transferred to the Federal Expert Service precisely as a computer genius. Anastasia Gulimova was born on January 25, 1982.
Boris Selivanov, actor Oleg Valkman, pathologist and forensic medical expert, from episode 448 began to take an active part in unraveling mysterious cases. In real life, the actor is afraid of the sight of blood and could easily faint, but in the film he had to dissect made-up actors portraying mutilated crime victims, which did not bother him at all: “I understood perfectly well that this was a movie and everything here was for fun...” Oleg Vladimirovich Valkman born on July 11, 1968 in Nizhny Novgorod, in 1996 he graduated from RATI (GITIS) named after. A.V. Lunacharsky, workshop of A.A. Goncharov.
The plot of the series "Trace"
The action of the series takes place in Moscow around the main “character” of the series - a new experimental, unique laboratory, which was equipped with the latest technology, but only six people were able to work with the latest technological developments - these were the laboratory employees - the staff of the Federal Expert Service, united specialists in various fields: from programmers to ballisticians, from pathologists to detectives, the team was personally recruited by Doctor of Medical Sciences, Colonel Galina Rogozina. FES - Federal Expert Service - is a special division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but it is also a real super team of modern times in research in all conceivable areas of applied criminology, the best personnel in all its areas, who, by examining various evidence, generating leads, exposing criminals, successfully helped the investigation in solving real criminal crimes, because their primary task was precisely to find what others could not find, and their professional interest was the material world of the crime scene.
There have never been perfect crimes, and, fortunately, there are unlikely to be... After each one, traces remained. Sometimes these traces caught the eye. Sometimes they could only be found with the help of special instruments. Millimeter by millimeter, the FS officers examined every piece of evidence; nothing went unnoticed. The work in the laboratory was organized in such a way that both an “important” (investigator for the investigation of particularly important cases) from the prosecutor’s office, who was investigating a high-profile contract murder, and a young district police officer could ask for help... FES experts certainly provided assistance, found and presented that very main evidence , which exposed the criminal and led the investigation in the right direction.
For each episode of the detective film run, one completed story was allocated; as a rule, it was one case, one criminal. Thus, the creative team of the project has already managed to neutralize a dozen maniacs, several poisoners, a couple of leaders of totalitarian sects and other “criminal reptiles”, to confirm the idea that in their own country there are the smartest, most subtle, sensitive forensic experts who can literally a thread to unravel any crime...
Behind the scenes of the series
The Federal Expert Service, which investigated the crimes in the series “Trace,” is an absolutely invented structure, which was a conscious move by the authors of the series, who simply stepped back from the specifics and made a detective story without any social allusions, simply “in its pure form,” which allowed from the very beginning, the artists and directors of the project should turn on their wild imagination to the fullest and create an absolutely unrealistic futuristic FES office.
The “Trace” filming pavilion gave the impression of some kind of spaceship: absolutely black glossy floors and some walls intersected with unrealistically transparent partitions between offices, stuffed with super-sophisticated equipment: liquid crystal monitors of various sizes, hanging wherever possible, looked organically in the diffused light, which was emitted by unusual lamps disguised in the scenery, an unusual door to the pavilion was made of frosted glass with the FES emblem, and next to it was the control unit for the electronic lock. And the experts drove around the city in cars with special stickers and logos of the expert service.
The most “science-intensive” office - the laboratory consisted of several refrigerators (the most important thing in which was the backlight, they did not freeze, but they looked scientific), as well as a dozen flasks, retorts, vials, jars and flasks of various sizes, with beautiful multi-colored reagents, with with the help of which experts showed fingerprints, did DNA analysis and other manipulations, designated in complex medical and forensic terms, but in fact these were shampoos and shower gels, which, thanks to manufacturers, are produced for every taste - be it blue, or red, or green, and with not a nasty chemical smell, but a pleasant fruity and floral aroma. On the platform above the laboratory there was a workstation equipped with a computer, across the wall from which there was a morgue. The most ascetic of all the rooms was the meeting room: in the center there was a round table filled with computer monitors, around there were chairs, and on the wall there were several monitors of different sizes, the latter of which the actors used to fix prompts with the text of the role.
The place in which most of the scenes were filmed was Rogozina’s office: a conference table made of plastic, illuminated from the inside by lamps, the lack of overhead lighting for Colonel Galina Ragozina always created an intimate atmosphere, on Galina Nikolaevna’s table there was a crime registration book with entries like “Citizen N. delivered with a penetrating knife wound...", but in the folders on the meeting table... texts of roles for actors! Behind the workplace of the head of the FES there were two luminous boards on the wall: a map of Moscow and fixed references to criminals, enlarged fingerprints and other forensic pieces of paper. In the bookcases there were folders with the inscription “The Case of So-and-So” (the folders inside were empty, but the books were real, albeit with a random selection).
Each episode was actually in real time: they filmed it, and after 3 days it was already on the air, which is why every day brought some kind of adventure, and the entire filming process was pure action. Actor Vladimir Tashlykov, that is, Major Kruglov, received a serious injury during filming: when, according to the script, he had to jump from a pier onto a yacht, the latter jumped on an inopportune wave, Tashlykov fell and broke his arm, but courageously completed the work, filming in stage, and then went to apply a plaster cast.
Actress Anna Dankova, pathologist Valentina Antonova, during one of the scenes had to approach the “corpse of a young artist.” He greeted her and asked: “What’s my number with you?” Dankova began to mentally count her heroine’s previous “clients” and realized that the current one was her tenth. When Anna announced the anniversary number to the “corpse,” they laughed together for a long time.
Once, in a pavilion “made up” to look like a morgue, one of the assistants fell asleep, and they could not find him for a long time until loud snoring was heard on the radio. It turned out that during the lunch break the sleepyhead decided to play pokemon, covering his head with a sheet, but having lost control of time, he fell asleep, and for the delay in filming he almost lost his bonus.
However, disruptions in the filming schedule often occur due to the fault of random onlookers. When one of the scenes was filmed in the entrance of a high-rise building, the filmmakers were annoyed by a local resident. She went back and forth and every now and then demanded that she be given a receipt for payment for filming at the entrance. Moreover, the documents from the district government, which the producers showed the lady, clearly did not suit her. She continued to get into the frame. I had to call the police, who managed to calm down the troublemaker.
According to the story, a murdered old woman was found in the apartment. The neighbor-witness was supposed to say that a certain young guy was visiting the murdered woman. But for some reason the actress who played her hesitated, there was a pause. And then... the same one who was killed came to the rescue. “Yes, this is my grandson!” - she noted calmly. The take was ruined, and the crew almost died of laughter.
One day, law enforcement officers themselves interfered with the work on “Trace.” One of the scenes was filmed in a car, in which only two actors, a cameraman and a director could fit into the cabin, and the “sound shop worker” who was supposed to record the dialogue of the characters did not have enough space in the cabin, and he sat “comfortably” in the trunk. And then suddenly, during the filming process, the “clean” sound was spoiled by a police siren: the filmmakers’ car was pressed to the side of the road by a patrol car, from which law enforcement officers jumped out very briskly, demanding that the trunk be opened immediately. After finding out, it turned out that an unusually vigilant passerby, who witnessed how the sound engineer was being pushed there, decided that the bandits had kidnapped a person...
Interesting Facts
The detective series “Trace,” airing on Channel One, has broken into the top five television projects of the season in its format.
On average, work on one 40-minute episode of the series “Trace” lasts two days.
Four times at the very beginning of filming the series “Trace,” actress Anna Dankova, playing Valentina Antonova, forgot the memorized text of the role, who could not master a new specialty - a pathologist.
In the image of charred corpses in the TV series "Trace", extras have to lie motionless on the ground for several hours. All the “corpses” that appeared on camera in the series “Trace” were living people, specially made up. It took the makeup artists 90 minutes to “paint” each crime victim. A special makeup made from a mixture of powder, eggshells and red paint was applied to the faces of the dead. Their roles are played in turn by 10 extras.
92 criminals were caught and sent to jail by members of the FES team during the time that the series “Trace” was on the air. Among them are 4 gangs of thieves, 22 murderers, 10 maniacs, 3 poisoners and others.
8 cars were wrecked during the filming of an action-packed series of adventures and the capture of criminals in the TV series “Trace.”
15 white coats were required daily by Olga Koposova, Anna Dankova, Pavel Shuvaev and Georgy Teslya-Gerasimov, who play FES laboratory specialists in the TV series “Sled.” Their clothes had to be always spotlessly clean.
More than 3,500 actors starred in the series “Trace” in large and small roles.
Over 2,500 different objects were used to film the 450 episodes of The Trail.
One episode of “Trace” was watched by an average of 11 million people. The total audience of the series was almost five billion viewers.
During their work, members of the film crew of the series “Next” ate about 70 thousand meals.
The actor who plays the role of GRU Major Sergei Maisky, Pavel Shuvaev, is also a musician - he sings in the group “ODDISS”. After auditioning for “Sled,” Pavel said that he did not want to part with his singing image, which included a leather jacket, an earring and long hair, and the producers allowed him to leave all this on the screen.
They were looking for an actor for the role of Ivan Tikhonov in the series “Trace” for several months. The hero is a hacker who started working as a system administrator in the FES laboratory. Evgeniy Kulakov passed the audition and was approved almost immediately. Although, unlike the hero, the computer does not know anything and could only use e-mail. And on the set, he only pretended to be working hard at the computer. In fact, there was always a blank screen in front of him or some kind of regular screensaver. The main thing is that he showed on camera that he was doing what he loved: “During filming, I played the buttons like a piano. Thanks to the operators. They filmed it so masterfully that my hooliganism was simply not noticeable. It seems that I did everything very deftly, quickly and easily. But in fact, I don’t really understand what a computer scientist or a hacker is. Therefore, the hairstyle of the person who inserted his fingers into the socket was specially invented. Literally powered from the mains.”
Actress Olga Koposova initially auditioned for the role of pathologist Antonova in the series “Sled,” but the creators saw in her the ideal embodiment of the head of the FES.
The series “Sled” received awards and prizes: 2009 - TEFI-2009 award in the category “Television feature series”, 2012 - TEFI-2011 award in the category “Director of a television feature film/series” to the chief production director Yuri Kharnas, 2012 - TEFI-2011 award in the category “Television feature series”.
Channel One did not show 5 purchased episodes of the series “Trace”: episode 679 “Basic Instinct”, episode 680 “Dad’s Birthday”, episode 681 “A Meteorite Arrived”, episode 682 “Give Me Food”, episode 683 “Eternal Values”.
During the work on the series, a lot changed in the personal lives of the members of the crew: Sergei Pioro (Shustov) and Elena Golovizina (Shustova) had a child; Tatyana Isakova (Maximova) left the project due to pregnancy; Olga Koposova - head of the FES Galina Rogozina broke up with her husband, entrepreneur Vlad, with whom she lived for 10 years and gave birth to a son, Gleb. It turned out that her husband had taken a mistress. Having learned about this, the actress filed for divorce and soon met a new lover who helped her survive the breakup with her husband. The actress celebrated her 40th birthday, and on the eve of the big anniversary she admitted that she again had problems on the personal front. However, Olga did not lose heart. It’s not for nothing that they say that at 40, life is just beginning...
Author – Alexey Generalov
The Rubicon has never been crossed. Bye
Even the 500th episode (the first big anniversary of the film) was not close to the end of filming. Work on the series was in full swing. And in the 450th episode, which was already mentioned earlier, a new main character appears - another employee of the expert service, pathologist Boris Selivanov. The cast and roles of “Trace” have been replenished with a new actor and hero. This series talked about the investigation by FES specialists into the case of venereologist Lidia Razumova. While working on it, doctors found some data on dancers from a strip club on the computer. Simultaneously with the investigation, the daughter-in-law of the deceased disappears without a trace. Representatives of the FES are now obliged to find out whether these events are interconnected and who is the killer of the doctor. In this situation, Selivanov will help them. The series “Trace,” in which the actors and roles of 2020 remained largely the same cast familiar to viewers, continued to bring people faith in justice.
Those viewers who constantly watched what was happening on the screen immediately realized that this actor (Oleg Valkman) was new to this huge project. He appeared on the team only in the spring. The actor starred a lot in other TV series - “Gromovs”, “Penal Battalion” and others. But he had already visited the set of “Trace” once: in one story he played a businessman. Walkman was noticed by the director and invited to work permanently.
In one of the interviews, the actor shared with journalists his impressions of filming and the fact that in life he is a little different from his character. Oleg Walkman himself can easily faint from just the sight of blood. But like Boris Selivanov, he easily dissects actors in makeup who portray victims of various crimes. The actor jokes that he understands: what’s happening on camera is a movie, and it’s all make-believe. Moreover, it would be simply indecent to show weakness when his character, according to the script, went through Chechnya and Afghanistan, was captured and was repeatedly wounded.
Their workplace
In order for the filming to take place in the most truthful conditions, and for the audience not to have the slightest doubt that all this was for real, a futuristic FES office was created. This included interrogation and meeting rooms, a morgue, a laboratory and other premises necessary to create the “real” picture.
In each 39-minute short film, FES employees investigate rather complex and serious cases, and all those responsible for the crime are brought to light.
“Experts” are getting to work
The filming process continued for a long time. Despite the fact that the creators of the series “Next” carefully prepared and outlined the actors and roles they played, it was stipulated in advance that this reputable organization was fictitious. Not all viewers who are, to one degree or another, fans of the film, realized the fact that the expert service shown to them on the screen, despite all its plausibility, is still not real. Therefore, at first, a lot of letters of complaint with requests for help came to the FES.
In the Primorsky Territory, the press service of the Department of Internal Affairs even appealed to local residents to beware of scammers who impudently posed as employees of the expert service for quite a long time. And in Sterlitamak, the police detained a criminal who, also posing as a member of the FES team, took away mobile phones from children and teenagers.
Faith in justice
This is what “Trace” turned out to be, a television series whose actors and roles were distributed so carefully and correctly that many viewers easily believed in the reality of what was happening on the screen. This is not surprising, because often the stories described in it concerned someone sitting on this side of the screen.
The film “Trace” became unusual even for a modern viewer; the actors and roles they played, I must say quite talentedly, showed all the ins and outs of a fictional, but very necessary service for people. Each artist was selected very carefully, going through a serious casting. And this was the first link in the success of the film.
So, the series “Trace”. The actors and the roles they played in this serial reassured the audience, instilling in them confidence that any crime must be solved, and the criminal must be held accountable according to the law.
Curiosities on the set
Even on the set of the most serious (and perhaps tragic) film it is impossible to do without funny incidents. The series “Trace” was no exception. Actors and roles, the women who embodied them, were often subjected to such pranks. Alla Dankova, who portrayed pathologist Valentina Antonova on the screen, according to the script of one of the episodes, was supposed to approach the “corpse” depicted by the young artist. So he played a joke on the girl: opening his eyes at the most inopportune moment, he asked Valentina what kind of “client” he was for her. Despite the already non-working mood that reigned on the site, Antonova began to quickly make calculations in her mind. She counted as many as ten. This one was “anniversary”. They laughed at this fact for a long time.
The next time a funny thing happened in a place that seemed not originally intended for jokes - in a built morgue. One of the assistants, an avid sleeper, decided to relax during his lunch break and inadvertently fell asleep, covering his head with a sheet. When filming had already begun, they searched for him for a long time, until they heard very loud snoring on the radio. The young man simply lost track of time. He was almost deprived of the award because the filming process had to be suspended.
