5 facts about the comedy series “Cafe” Cuba “with Marina Fedunkiv on TNT

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Cuba in the Voronezh region

The idea of ​​this series was developed by Zhanna Kadnikova for about four years and has undergone many changes. — for example, at first there was a car service instead of a cafe, but then the director decided to focus on a place where everyone is warm and comfortable. They became a cafe on a large highway in the central strip of Russia, where truckers stop, romantic travelers dine and locals gather. Together with her husband Boris, who dreamed of Cuba, the main character Tamara opened a cafe and created southern aesthetics with improvised means. — put up cacti, hung a portrait of Che Guevara, and began to defend her “Cuba” from racketeers and other bandits. By the way, having learned the name of the series they are to work on, screenwriters Marina Nikolskaya, Alexei Malyshev and Andrey Perov were delighted because they imagined an expedition to Cuba — but in the end, the shooting took place in the Moscow region, not far from the city of Stupino, although according to the plot of the series, this is the Voronezh region.

Signs of zero — from prices to banners on the tracks

The year 2003 is of great importance for the series and dramaturgically throws the heroes more tests. — they do not, for example, have the technologies we are used to to quickly solve their problems. The authors approached the reconstruction of the signs of time scrupulously — for example, they inserted fragments of the super-popular show “Windows” with Dmitry Nagiyev into the series and hung a reality banner on the track. The scriptwriters emphasize that their research was not completed even at the stage of filming itself, at which they always had a board with notes about everything that happened in 2003. For example, the SARS virus was raging (but it will not be in the series), and a bottle of vodka cost 60 rubles.

Behind the scenes — operator of clips by Philip Kirkorov, Alsu and Propaganda

Sergey Dyshuk became the cameraman of Cafe Cuba, which brought a lot of valuable points to visualize the idea of ​​Zhanna Kadnikova — an iconic figure in the world of domestic clip-making, since 1998 he has worked as an operator for the MTV-Russia channel. In the nineties and zero, Dyshuk shot videos for Philip Kirkorov, Kristina Orbakaite, Alsou, the Propaganda, Lepreconsy, Prime Minister and other iconic performers of that time. According to the scriptwriters, Sergey used the author’s cameraman’s finds to convey the style of the 2000s in different scenes. — for example, house parties or bowling.

Our answer to Golyak

Strange things in a small town inhabited by seemingly ordinary, but in fact extremely colorful characters with a rollicking manner of speaking — for fans of foreign series, the first association to such a description would be “Golyak”, a series about life in the British outback. It turns out that the authors of Cafe Cuba were really inspired by the Golyak series in terms of the kind, brotherly attitude of the characters to each other and in terms of the crazy stories they get into. For example, Golyak inspired the authors for a story about an ostrich in one of the episodes, but this is not a reference. And in general — native, there is much more Russian in the series, and in general it looks like an absolutely unique project, and let the mention of Golyak be a bait for viewers who are still skeptical about Russian television projects.

A gift for a Stupino businessman

Despite the relative convenience of stage shooting, actors and other members of the film crew are always happy when films and series are filmed “in the field”, on real objects. — after all, in this case, the picture always turns out to be more real, moreover, the expedition –— creepy fun experience. The cafe where the characters of the series spend most of their screen time is completely real — it suited the authors in terms of location, and the owner allowed it to be re-planned a bit. After filming the pilot, he even asked to leave him the Cuban design, because he really liked it, and while the scriptwriters were writing the season, the cafe continued to work.