From “Major Thunder” to “Ether”: Middle Ages and Retrophuturism in Cinema

If any film project starts with the scenario, then shooting – from the preparation of the site. Loque-managers are one of the most important cinema professions among “invisible” professions. With their efforts, the urgent view of the sleeping area turns into a retro -futuristic box office records, modern streets with road signs and channels – to the 18th century bridge and the palaces of the Russian Empire – from the medieval fortresses.

Hermitage or Soviet partner has a great Multizadak work behind each scene against the background. It is not enough to find a place for shooting – you need to participate in residents, to take the permission of city services, to organize equipment delivery, to provide a power supply, to solve many administrative problems that neither the audience nor the film crew suspects. Not every person can overcome the “bureaucratic hell ve and cannot find a compromise between the parties that do not compromise.

August 27 Cinema Day, 360 Loccer executives, we learned how to create the brightest films and TV shows in St. Petersburg.

“Don” (2025)

Ether has become one of the most ambitious projects of recent years. Many heroes are a non -insignificant task to transfer screen legendary fantasy with spaces, movements and fantastic elements. Before the Lord of the Rings, the best fantasy was similar to amateur performances. Another extraordinary success was the “Game of Thrones ör which proved the potential of the species. In Russia, Camsha’s attempt to transfer the “pregnancy” cycle in 2022 did not satisfy critics or spectators. The producers decided to give the project a second chance.

The land talks about the struggle for the throne on the threshold of the great fracture of the aristocratic clans. Since the action took place in a fictional Middle Ages and at different time intervals, it was important to consider the reality of geography. The series was shot in various parts of Russia – Dagestan, Pskov and Leningrad regions and in the city itself in Neva.

To make the Etherns world alive and convincing, lock managers Vitaly Levitin, Artem Demin and Evgeny Kostarev worked carefully on every detail. The main episodes were taken at the Kelch Mansion and the House of Architect, the Ethnographic Museum and the Stiegits Academy, but difficulty was the opening of well -known places in a completely new way. The series showed the unique inlay of Tsarskoye Selo’s agate rooms, where Queen Qatarina Ollar’s rooms were rented. The scenes at the Secular School, where young Nobles worked, were shot in Peterhof’s imperial gothic stables.

For the sake of the series, the Location 360 team agreed to suspend the restoration work at Vyborg Castle, which is not easy. The company also organized a shooting in Pitoresk Dagestan villages in Chokh and Gunnib. In order to attract the scenes of the famous Gunn castle, it was necessary to build large -scale decorations and provide a task that requires subtlety and respect for local traditions.

Kinovoye “Major Thunder”

The franchise about Major Thunder is the only superhero in Russia. At least nine new film and TV shows in Bubble Comics by 2029 are waiting for us. The animation series “Furia”, “Major Thunder”, “Besoba”, “Miro -Roaders”, “Exlibrium”, “Raven Time” and other projects. All will be connected with a single concept.

In order to create an alternative version of St.Petersburg, the combined efforts of the company’s founders 360 Sergey Kasatov and Alexander Talaluev, General Manager Nikita Leble and Ivan Sukhorukov, Ivan Veselov and Anna Medvedeva are required.

Initially, an engineering castle was considered for a police station, but due to bright cooked earth walls, at the end of the election, a more restricted marble palace fell. The emergency from scratch was built in the building in the building of the former Russian-Asia Bank. Such subtleties made it possible to create a gloomy metropolis atmosphere.

In the second episode, “Thunder. Zor Childhood” lock managers rented the workshop of the Kirov factory, which is considered to be the most successful among the most successful industrial fields for one of the main scenes. However, the most difficult thing was to shoot in Isaakaevskaya Square, which should be coordinated for a month and a half. According to archive photography, the street market was fully recreated for the sake of this scene, and the movement in the Mariinsky Palace was completely prevented.

The third episode “Major Thunder. Game” became a real challenge from both an organizational and technical point of view – I had to block the movement to withdraw the chase on Tchaikovsky Street. But there were other tasks: the launch of large balloons from Palace Square and fireworks in the current church. This time, the Locys-managers found a new place for the Police Station and changed the location of dysfunctional areas.

“Prophet. Alexander Pushkin History”

Bayopic “prophet. Alexander Pushkin’s story” Yura Borisov, the first three-third of the 19th century after the reconstruction of a period of Locys-director wanted to work tremendously. For this, all anachronisms were removed from the urban environment, which could not be that time: advertising shields, road signs, urban back light. I had to block a few central streets. The most difficult thing was to convince city administration to hit a bridge, which was repaired. The Location 360 team had to coordinate details with contractors, builders and city services.

For the audience, this is not always clear, but as a rule, winter is drawn in other seasons. So this time. In the autumn of the air, in accordance with the scenario, lock managers Alexander Lyakhu, Olga Suvorova, Vadim Bolkunov had to organize snow: to block a few streets and decorate the entire area with spanbond and cover artificial snow. According to the circumstances, after the end of the field shooting, the dismantling of the landscape was to return to the city as an unspoiled form.

When you usually have the opportunity to show the audience a place closed to the public, you are particularly aware of the value of such work. And this is the most pleasant in the work of the lock manager. For example, in a common power, it was possible to show the library of the Bestuzhevsk courses, the architectural victory of the period in which no one has shown on the big screen before. This allows you to increase the recognition of the monument and increase the influx of tourists.

“Kill Rita”

Lochesian executives Vadim Ryazantsev and Dmitry Chernov in front of the “Kill Rita ,, task was to leave the open appearance with the landscapes of St. Petersburg and to turn it into a neon metropolis. Instead of monumentalism and seriousness, the flavor of East Asian became a reference. Kronstadt’s Hellengs has become such a non -standard site for the film where Shanghai’s view was built for a week. A atypical task was the search for the corn area in the northern region – fortunately, the desired position was found in the Leningrad region.

According to the script in the series, there are many action scenes with the participation of stunts, chase and shooting in exotic urban places. The most difficult thing was to prepare a scene where Eugene Borzykh was the hero? For three days to show how the follower throws into the windshield, then flies, then an explosion occurs.

“Unde principle in St. Petersburg”

Ivan Sukhorukov, Daria Vasileva, Alexey Kazakov, Alexei Veselov, including the 360 ​​command in front of the “St. Petersburg in the work on the work on the work on the work on the work: organically heroes entered the new urban environment. Since the audience perceived the consciousness of the front and the interiors as a single area, they decided to shoot scenes in different buildings. This made it possible to diversify visual series and show new first -class places.

According to the land, Valentina’s hero settled in the legendary house of Buck on Kirochny Street, but the interiors of the apartment were shot elsewhere. Similarly, the elite club showed scenes in “703”. The pre -revolutionary luxury of scientists house halls. Gorky was combined with the façade of the Elagin Palace.

In terms of shooting organization, the most difficult thing was to change at Mikhailovsky Theater. The location 360 team had to prepare the site only at night: after the completion of the main repertoire and before the start of the morning rehearsals. Any deviation from the program can eliminate all efforts. In addition, an orchestra, chef and ballet dancers participated in the project. Especially for the series, a unique decoration was established on the legendary scene.

The series also has the scene of divorce of the bridge in the middle of the day. For this reason, despite the big traffic to prevent traffic and three times the school time. This was the last time on the set 30 years ago – “The Italians in Russia are incredible adventures.”

Now that there is an enormous work behind the creation of film and TV shows, you are unintentionally tolerant to the blocked streets, the noise of generators and other disorders of urban life. Ideally, all of these are regulated by the key -melted managers who eliminate maximum discomfort and undertake residents, authorities and owners of the elite real estates and undertaking the resolution of disputes. It is the efforts of the beautiful places we dream of visiting later. These invisible professionals use all skills, so that the scenario earns life on the screen.

Filming from the shots: Kinopoisk, Mediaslovo Production Company, location 360.