Warning: The text contains spoilers for the first episodes of the series “Knock on My Door” and “Knock on My Door in Moscow”.
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Since the series “Knock on My Door in Moscow” is an official remake, the general plot of the Turkish hit is preserved. Of course, individual details and structure will differ, but in general, the story of Sasha Gordeeva and Sergei Gradsky will be a repetition of the events that happened with Eda Yıldız and Serkan Bolat.
The first part of the adaptation is almost entirely consistent with the original: the camera pans through the main character’s room, bathed in the morning sun, where a voice-over talks about the girl’s fate. Eda and Sasha lost their parents in primary school, they live with their aunt, they work in their family’s flower shop, they dream of becoming a landscape designer, they have three close friends and a long-distance boyfriend. Does Eda tell more about herself: After her parents left, she focused on her studies, “became the first among the firsts”, won the Olympics, received an invitation to study in Italy in her last year of university, and knew that she would definitely find a job after graduation.
In the original, at this moment the narration is interrupted by Aunt Ayfer, who calls Eda to help with the work at the flower shop. When they leave, on the door is the dart-pierced portrait of construction manager Serkan Bolan, whose scholarship Eda lost and could not continue her education. The incident continues at the flower shop, where Eda carries bags of soil and fertilizer.
In turn, Sasha Gordeeva received a scholarship to study at the best university in Moscow, but was expelled by the decision of businessman Sergei Gradsky, a “bad person”, whose portrait the girl also threw darts at.
Sasha’s morning goes more calmly and smoothly: he wakes up, squeezes the flowers and sits down to breakfast with pancakes. The voice-over announces that her friends and a young man named Vitalik, whom she has not seen in about a year, are there and that she will meet him at the airport. The aunt remembers that the last time Vitalik cheated on Sasha and did not come, but the girl points out that he had already registered for the flight. Later, she goes to a modern flower shop and helps carry the soil in bags, dragging them on the ground (Eda carried the bags on her back and spilled one of them). And in general, Sasha, who does her job in this scene with her perfect hair and snow-white top, looks much less exhausted than the heroine Hande Erçel.
Serkan and Sergey’s first appearance at the airport is also slightly different. At first glance, the “original” Bolat looks much more assertive than his Russian successor – stepping off a private plane in sunglasses and an expensive suit, effectively throwing his jacket over his shoulder and calling his assistant Leila. And Gradsky appears at the door of the plane in casual clothes and immediately scolds the frightened employee Lilya on the phone. However, an expensive sports car awaits Sergei at the top of the track – Serkan was deprived of such a privilege.
Moreover, the plot of the Russian version practically does not differ from the Turkish one. A businessman comes into the office, the employees are flustered and argue over who will tell him the news about his ex-girlfriend Alina’s engagement (in the original Celine). The assistant gives Gradsky a handcuff-shaped invitation to his ex-girlfriend’s engagement party. Later, Sergei goes to a meeting with students, where Sasha is found (she planned to meet her boyfriend at the airport, but he arrived earlier). After shouting profanities at the businessman from the audience, the girl writes the word “goat” with lipstick on the window of his sports car (here Eda was more cruel: She scratched the car before calling him names with lipstick). a nail file).
During a conversation with Gradsky, Sasha notices the handcuffs on his car and chains himself to his hand to wait for the police, journalists and voice his complaints. At this moment, the angry Gradsky calls his assistant – and it turns out that due to budget cuts, students are indeed deprived of scholarships. Gradsky, who is chained to Sasha’s right side in order to make it to an important meeting, is forced to put her behind the wheel.
Characters
The bright, positive brunette Sasha and the shy, blonde-haired Sergei almost completely fit the types of Eda and Serkan. However, Nikita Volkov looks softer than Kerem Bürsin; With its similar appearance, its energy and appearance are slightly different. Many secondary characters are similar to their prototypes both in behavior and visually: the main character’s friends Sveta and Luda (in the original Melo and Dzheren), Gradsky’s assistant Lilya (Leila), Alina’s fiancé Philip (Ferit). Eda’s third friend, Fifi, looked fierce and dressed all in black; In the Russian version, she was replaced by the red-haired Margarita, who wore a checkered shirt and looked like “one of our girls”.
Instead of Engin, Oleg, played by singer Vlad Sokolovsky, became the main character’s assistant. Visually they have nothing in common, but the behavior is the same. Useless Erdem, whose father once helped Engin a lot, became Edik in the Russian version. Instead of the arrogant and work-obsessed red-haired employee, Peril Gradsky is greeted by Kira, an introverted, strict brunette. Therefore, when the boss walks in in the adaptation, the atmosphere in the office is quieter than in the original.
Location and visual
The juicy picture, designer interiors, framing and musical design of the Russian version fully convey the atmosphere familiar to fans of the Turkish series. The places where the plot unfolds are very different for obvious reasons. So in the original, the main character lives in a comfortable house on a narrow, relief street in Istanbul, where his aunt’s authentic flower shop with many small details is also located. The Russian heroine lives in a modern Moscow residential complex with a brand new flower shop on the ground floor, which looks more like a set. Unlike Eda, who drives an old, broken-down car with flower seedlings on the roof, everything is fine with Sasha’s car – he drives around the center of Moscow in a new foreign car.
Serkan’s Art Life architectural firm has its office in the Mashattan Sitesi district of Istanbul, and Gradsky works at the Moscow Danilovskaya Factory – his company is called Stillard.