23 minSeason 1 • Episode 16
LatestAfter the fight with Dagestanis, the novice rapper Bonus, along with his friend, drug addict and drug dealer Gashik, must disappear for several weeks from the home village of Volodarovka, which is located in the Astrakhan region. They decide to go to Moscow, where Gashik will try to become the driver of the businessman’s son, and Bonus - to become a rap artist.
Direction
Gay Germanika's unflinching gaze at Russian marginality.
Acting
Sudarev's Bonus: fragility wrapped in false bravado.
Production
Astrakhan and Moscow as characters in themselves.
Creator
Valeriya Gay Germanika
Lana Rayder
Sonya
Artem Suchkov
Gashik / Denis
Anton Adasinsky
Khromoy
Alexandr Sudarev
Bonus / Ivan
Dmitry Smirnov
Kurt
Alexey Litvinenko
Leonid
Alexandr Userdin
Vladimir Vadimovich, father of Sonya and Kurt
Yuliya Aug
mother of Sonya and Kurt
Larisa Baranova
Natasha
Igor Vernik
manager of studio
Agniya Ditkovskite
Polina
Sergey Pakhomov
Chilim
Pavel Komarov
Neo
Varvara Nazarova
Valerka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series captures a specific 2010s Russian phenomenon: provincial youth flooding Moscow chasing influencer culture while remaining invisible to it.
Gay Germanika cast mostly non-actors from Astrakhan; Sudarev was literally discovered working at a local gas station.
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