The plot and actors of the series "Quest"

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In October 2015, the popular entertainment channel STS showed "Quest" - a series with actors who delighted the audience in other exciting projects of the network of television stations. Two years later, the viewer was offered a sequel. Despite the fact that the film was shown late at night, season 2 was watched with interest by thousands of fans of the cryptohistorical action genre, and in Russian speaking, an action movie about the secrets of history.

Plot twists

Seven people who don't know each other wake up one day on the roof of a skyscraper. They are dressed in unified jumpsuits, and on the wrist of each of them is a fancy bracelet with a timer. The newly minted team is informed that they are now the heroes of a game in which their own life will be the prize. Thus began season 1 of the series "Quest". Actors in someone's sinister production or the lucky ones who have a chance to acquire something so important that its price is equal to life itself? Unwitting participants of the quest are thinking about this.

To play is to survive

In the photo, the actors of the series "Quest" in the images of their characters look alarmed and doomed. The heroes are poisoned by a slow-acting poison. The timer in the bracelet counts inexorablyminutes, and if the seven do not have time to complete the next task, there will be no syringe with an antidote, everyone will die. The seven will discover dark secrets that go back to the deep past, overcome their fears and investigate who played this terrible prank on them.

Descendants of Adam

The semantic center of the plot is tied to the search for the treasure of Jacob Bruce, close associate of Peter the Great. A "cocktail" of legends, scriptwriters' fiction and documented historical information devotes us to the secret of the invention of the elixir of eternal youth that Bruce invented. The potion does not work without the DNA of the progenitor of mankind - Adam. Some secret organization is trying to find a direct descendant of the first person in order to get his blood with a valuable genetic component. The applicant is supposedly among seven people of different age, status and profession who were chosen by someone unknown to participate in the quest.

Actors and roles in the series "Quest

The leading roles were played by artists whom STS viewers managed to fall in love with and follow their cinematic and personal lives with interest. Pavel Priluchny and his wife Agata Muceniece came to shoot in Riga with their son, little Timothy. For the film, the star couple changed their appearance: the long-haired blonde Agatha in the role of the student Sasha became a shorn brown-haired woman, and Pavel turned into a musician Dan with shoulder-length hair. Both artists used wigs. Muceniece was filming in parallel in another project, where her former image was required. Priluchny admitted that men with long hair do not causehe trusts, although he is ready to make an exception for his DJ hero.

Quest is already the fifth joint project of young actors. First there was the 2011 comedy My Mad Family. In the same year, Gamers appeared, the continuation of the cult technological action films On the Game and On the Game. New Level". In 2012, the “Closed School” ended, and in 2014, the film “Secret City-2”, a film adaptation of the novel by Vadim Panov, was released. After the series "Quest", the actors were invited to star in the fantasy of 2018 - "Secret City-3".

Brilliant makeup

The role of journalist Marina Gerasimova went to Marina Petrenko, who calls this work the most beloved in her filmography. The actress speaks of the heroine as a multifaceted personality, in which femininity and rigidity, vulnerability and the ability to make firm decisions in extreme circumstances coexist. Petrenko is listed not only among the actors of the series "Quest", she also became its co-producer.

When they made antique-styled bracelets for the characters of the film, it turned out that neither Marina nor Agatha had the thinnest wrist, but Ilya Iosifov. Adventure movie fans remember the actor from his work in the post-apocalyptic TV series Ship, where he played the slender cadet Renat Akhmadullin. In the Quest project, Ilya appeared as the hacker Vyacheslav.

Actor of the Drama Theater. A. S. Pushkin, Pyotr Rykov is also known to the audience for the fantastic film "The Ship", where he played the role of Andrei, a participant in the scientific project "Alexandria". AT"Queste" he is one of the seven players, car mechanic Petr Grekov, or simply Grek.

Gallery of unexpected images

Auditor Pyotr Shakhov, who did not live to see the end of season 1, was played by Ivan Shibanov. The talented actor of Oleg Tabakov's theater-studio captured the imagination of fans of mysticism and the detective in the TV series The Other Side of the Moon, playing the role of Ginger, a maniac who travels through time in a contradictory tandem with Captain Solovyov.

Mikhail Evlanov managed to create an extraordinary image of a taciturn retired officer, and now a bodyguard, Alexei Khmury. No wonder, because Evlanov is one of the artists who can invent the space of their character on the set.

Another name well-known to STS fans is Yana Krainova, who shone in the Diaries of Dr. Zaitseva and Interns. The artist tried on a new role - here she is a dangerous and cold-blooded coordinator of the mysterious Game, who decides who will die.

Wizard or scientist?

The role of the culprit of incredible adventures - Jacob Bruce - was entrusted to the Latvian artist Juris Strenga. In the series "Quest", the actor was lucky to create the image of a historical person - a naturalist, who was cautiously called a sorcerer among the people.

Yakov Bruce has assembled a "cabinet of curious things" that have become part of the collection of the Kunstkamera in St. Petersburg. He opened the first observatory in Russia, was engaged in scientific translations and worked fruitfully for the benefit of mining and industrial production in Russia.