29 minSeason 4 • Episode 5
LatestA comedic Russian web-series featuring a myriad of characters, living in a city somewhere in either 1980s USSR or 1990s Russia, all played by one person — Anton Lapenko. The concept and plot originated from skits on Anton's Instagram. The series is made in the style of VHS and Soviet perestroika-cinema and the bulk of the dialogue is improvised
Acting
Anton plays dozens of distinct characters with zero costume changes
Production
Authentic VHS degradation and perestroika-era set design
Writing
Improvised dialogue that somehow achieves narrative coherence
Creators
Aleksey Smirnov, Anton Lapenko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The VHS aesthetic isn't nostalgia — it's a deliberate mirror of how Soviet citizens actually consumed banned Western media, copied hand-to-hand on degraded tapes.
Anton originally performed these characters in 15-second Instagram clips; the full series was greenlit after one skit about an engineer and his catamaran went inexplicably viral.
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