What happened after: Yulia Snigir and Alexander Petrov are looking for a maniac in the third season of "Fisher"

The secular premiere of the series "After Fischer. The Inquisitor." This is the sequel to the popular thriller about real maniacs. The first season was dedicated to the case of Sergei Golovkin, the second was inspired by the criminal case of the early 1990s, and the new part addresses unsolved crimes in Barnaul in the early 2000s. One of the episodes is inspired by director Olga Frenkel's real-life encounter with a maniac in those years. About this, as well as about the marriage proposal during the premiere and the stars of the red carpet — in the Izvestia report.

What is the series "After Fischer. The Inquisitor"

The first season of "Fisher" about serial killer Sergei Golovkin, who operated in the Moscow Region from 1986 to 1992, was released in 2023 and was warmly received by the audience and the professional public: it received positive reviews and was awarded the Golden Eagle and the Star of the Theater. The sequel, which was again based on a real criminal case, also made itself felt vividly and was included in the top hundred projects of the Russian rating of the series "Medialogy" for 2025. Therefore, the third part of the anthology, which had its own fan base, was expected.

— It's not evil that hypnotizes, but the on-screen victory over it. The audience, watching trukraim, does not expect that the maniac will win. They want good to prevail. And the more evil the evil, the fiercer this desire is. In addition, when we were making the series "Fingerprints", we talked a lot with the team about the feeling of safe risk. The viewer is involved in the investigation without risking anything. The story is absorbing because there are mysteries that are interesting to solve, but no one's fate depends on a mistake. That's why you're just involved in the game," actor Dmitry Chebotarev, who came to the premiere of the third part among the audience to support his colleagues, told Izvestia.

The closed secular screening was hosted by the Khudozhestvenny Cinema on May 27. If the first two seasons of "Fisher" with Ivan Yankovsky and Alexander Yatsenko talked about real criminal cases, then the third part of the anthology is based on the general atmosphere of mystery around crimes in Barnaul in the early 2000s.

The action is transferred to the present day. The body of a local official's daughter is found in a small Altai town. The brutal massacre unravels the tangle of a series of unsolved murders from different years, behind which stands a Barnaul maniac.

"I sat with him for several hours, naked, handcuffed, with a knife at my throat."

The creators are once again turning to the study of the root cause of human cruelty, but now the rationalism and logic of the investigators compete with something mystical. For Olga Frenkel, who took the director's chair, this technique is not new. In her "Insomnia", a psychotherapist played by Gosha Kutsenko traveled with his patients to past lives with the help of regressive hypnosis to find the root of today's problems. In the sequel to Fischer, Frankel turns to shamanic rituals. The idea was dictated by the location itself.

— A shaman was written in the script. We went to Altai to see a real shaman. The locals took us to the grandmother, who usually does not receive visitors. I was impressed by how domestic she was — not the way shamans are shown in TV series," Frenkel told Izvestia before the show. — And we decided to make such a heroine. I was afraid to ask her questions, I just wanted to see how she worked. But she asked about the project. She said that everything would be fine, he would be popular, but the path would be difficult. She even mentioned specific difficulties that would arise. For example, we'll shoot later, and we've really moved on with filming.

For the director, the story is partly personal, and the filming turned out to be therapeutic. In the early 2000s, she almost became a victim of a maniac herself, and now, she confessed to Izvestia, for the first time in many years, she is no longer afraid.

— I was young, I worked as a singer. I had a concert at Butman's Taganka Jazz Club. I got out and got into a taxi as usual. The driver and I had a pleasant conversation, he was very polite and courteous — there was no thought that something was wrong. He drove around the bend to my house and took me somewhere beyond the MKAD. I sat with him for several hours in the woods, naked, handcuffed, with a knife at my throat," the director shared her painful memories.

According to Frenkel, she was saved by the fact that the maniac did not cover her mouth and she had the opportunity to talk to him. This dialogue is partially included in the new season.

— I spoke evenly and calmly, and he kept asking: "Why aren't you afraid? You should be afraid." And we used it in the series. I answered: "What's to be afraid of? It's stupid to be afraid of death. If it's now, it means so. But think about what it means for you." I told him about the nine circles of hell according to Dante, a lot about God and life after death. She even recounted Solzhenitsyn's "Cancer Case" in detail. I talked him into it, and he let go. I took off the handcuffs, told him not to turn around, and returned to the car, but suddenly the trouble was gone, and he ran after me. Out of fear, I stomped so hard that I managed to escape," she said.

Alexander Petrov, Yulia Snigir and Polina Gukhman on the red carpet

The cast is changing in the third season. The case is handled by the local Belov opera performed by Yulia Snigir and the investigator from Barnaul, Terekhov, played by Alexander Petrov. Another dramatic plot line is the long—standing unresolved conflict between them.

Everyone appeared on the red carpet with their families: Alexander Petrov — with his wife Victoria, Yulia Snigir — accompanied by Evgeny Tsyganov.

Another of the intrigues of the Inquisitor is the story of the mysterious girl Tonka, who grew up in the taiga. Almost nothing is known about her past. What is clear is that she is somehow connected with what is happening in the town.

— This is something like the "Fifth Element," says Polina Gukhman about her character. — I don't mean the red—haired square, but what she is like, a Mowgli girl who doesn't understand how all these people live in the modern world.

On the walkway, she posed in the company of Grigory Wernick. Fyodor Bondarchuk, Evgeny Sangadzhiev, Vladimir Kanukhin and many others were also among the guests of the show. The thriller will premiere on May 28 exclusively at the Wink online cinema. Whether evil will be defeated in the series is an intrigue, but the premiere was with a happy ending — director Olga Frenkel received a marriage proposal.