The series “Cicadas” will be broadcast on Kinopoisk on October 26. socialbites.ca was informed about this by the press service of the service.
Episodes will be released one by one each week. It was directed by Evgeny Stychkin, known for his projects “Cicadas”, “Patient Zero” and “Communication”. The screenwriter of the film is Ekaterina Tirdatova (“Castle”, “Sklifosovsky”, “Market”).
The series will tell about school graduates who experience a terrible tragedy at a party. Because of the incident, they, their parents, and the investigator must reconstruct a picture of what happened. As the interrogation progresses, more problems and secrets are revealed.
The leading roles include Igor Vernik’s son Grigory, Sofia Arzhanykh, Ilya Vinogorsky, Katya Voronina, Kirill Bukhantsev, Irina Pautova, Savely Naumov, Sergei Gorodnichiy.
Lead actress Sofia Arzhanykh admitted that she was pleased to play with Grigory Vernik. She stated that she and him met a year ago on another project and developed a “comfortable tandem” there.
Olga Sutulova, Ekaterina Varnava, Sergey Umanov, Ksenia Ryabinkina, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Evgeny Sannikov, Evgeny Stychkin, Victoria Tolstoganova and Artem Bystrov also took part in the project.
The series was first screened at the New Season online cinema festival this fall.
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