The comedy series “A Friend for an Hour” will premiere in Premier online cinema on April 17, the streaming platform’s press service reported.
The series will also air on TNT.
According to the story, the head of the pediatric department, Nikolai Sergeevich Mayakin, retires and realizes that he has neither savings nor family. His late wife left him advice for his later life, but Mayakin, disappointed in the life of a pensioner, does not want to live. At this time, he meets a young, energetic Lekha who is rediscovering the taste for life for an elderly doctor. “Success and individuality in the modern world have almost become a religion, there is almost no time left for establishing human relationships. And most of the time, we feel lonely even in the busiest city. This story is about a group of friends who provide a unique service,” write the film’s authors.
The film starred Sergei Shakurov, Boris Dergachev, Evgenia Simonova, Marina Vasilyeva, Elena Valyushkina, Viktor Bychkov, Yegor Koreshkov, Pavel Derevyanko, Olga Tumaykina and others.
The pilot episode of the “One Hour Friends” project, aired in the summer of 2022, received an audience award at the Pilot-2022 festival.
Previously reporteddocumentary film “Mikhail Gorshenev. The Legend of the King and the Jester” will be released in April on Okko.