The TV series "Specials" will show in detail the work of the FSB in preventing terrorist attacks

The events of the Crimean Spring and how the Russian security forces managed to resist the Ukrainian nationalists for the first time formed the basis of the new action-packed series "Specials". The unique REN TV project, which artistically reinterprets real events, was created with maximum accuracy based on declassified documents of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia.

As Maxim Oblender, a correspondent for Izvestia, who visited the set on April 12, said, every movement in the frame and especially the action scenes were performed under the guidance of special forces soldiers. They, those "Specialists", always pull the trigger only as a last resort.

For the film project, the FSB of the Russian Federation declassified the details of several operations of the Special Purpose Center at once: the elimination of Chechen terrorists, the events of the Crimean spring, and finally, the prevention of sabotage in the mid-2010s. Then, somewhere on the border of Russia and Ukraine, biolabs were opened at an ammonia plant. They tried to remove the traces of their work and disguise it as a terrorist attack.

"Several settlements are under threat at once, such a sabotage at an ammonia plant, according to the plan of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and their Western curators, should undoubtedly discredit the Russian military, allegedly they were involved in the explosion," Oblender said.

Actors Dmitry Pchela, Ilya Akintyev, Mark Ovchinnikov and Denis Donskoy and other famous performers have been working on the set for almost a year to match the security professionals themselves.

"We were initially trained at the special forces center, we were trained by real fighters, we trained with them. Then, of course, in every scene we have a consultant who corrects us," said actor Stanislav Weaver.

In order to take control of the factory in real life, the special forces trained at a twin factory. The scenery in the series is given so much attention that often eyewitnesses of the filming take everything for the truth.

"The decorations were Ukrainian, posters were posted, something else, and the residents called the police, who immediately arrived, and we were arrested. Well, then everything was fine, we showed our permits," said director Alexander Chernyaev.

The scriptwriters of the project are literally studying the archive of the special services, but there was also a place for fiction. Of course, they will show the personal stories of the characters, their characters.

"And the fact that in between work and regular business trips, they are the same ordinary people with their families, problems, worries and, of course, relationships," Maxim Oblender added.

"He wants a family, he wants to hold a cat at home like that," actor Denis Donskoy said of his character.

The audience is waiting for a vivid picture, beautiful landscapes, a famously twisted plot and, of course, everything that it is impossible to imagine a classic male action movie without. The first joint project of the Triix Media film company and the REN TV channel will be shown very soon.

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In February, it was reported that one of the episodes of the TV series "Specials" was based on archival documents about a large-scale special forces operation in the Moscow region, from which the "secret" label was removed. The story of how the terrorist attack was prevented was reproduced with maximum accuracy. The details of this operation near Moscow have never been widely publicized.

On March 24, Medialogia presented on its website a Russian series rating consisting of the 100 most popular projects of the past year. The South Korean thriller "The Squid Game" took the first place with 42,861 points, the second place was taken by the American science fiction series "Stranger Things" (26,572 points), and the third place was taken by the Russian detective "Sled" (20,361 points).

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