The authors of the series “The Boy’s Word” denied that they were re-shooting the finale in Yaroslavl

YAROSLAVL, December 6The creators of the series “The Boy’s Word” denied the information that the last episode of the film was being re-shot in Yaroslavl, explaining that “a planned addition of location shooting” was underway.
Earlier, the online publication MSK1.RU reported that reshooting of the final episode of the drama was underway in Yaroslavl. The news, against the backdrop of the resonance caused by the screening of the series, was picked up by other media.
Director of External Communications at NMG Studio Maria Dalakyan, in a conversation with, denied the information that we are talking about reshoots.

“In Yaroslavl, planned additional filming of location and individual fragments of the project is underway, the lack of which we realized during the editing of the series. We are following a long-planned schedule,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

Filming of the series, despite the fact that the action takes place in Kazan, was largely carried out in Yaroslavl, affecting both the city center and its outskirts. In the spring of this year, the recruitment of extras was announced on social networks. The plans of Yaroslavl are recognizable in the series.

The premiere episodes of the series “The Boy’s Word. Blood on the Asphalt,” starring Ruzil Minekaev, Ivan Yankovsky, Sergei Burunov and Zhora Kryzhovnikov, were released in the Wink and Start online cinemas on November 9. The series tells the story of youth criminal gangs against the backdrop of perestroika.
The series caused significant resonance. Social networks and the media published reports that after the release of “The Boy’s Word,” teenagers in the Sarmanovsky district of Tatarstan created Telegram channels, which were named after two well-known Kazan organized crime groups in the past. The teenagers divided the area into spheres of influence and assigned “arrows” to their opponents in the created channels. They also posted videos of the fights in instant messengers. The participants in the correspondence themselves told the police that it was a game, and a preventive conversation was held with the teenagers.
Against the backdrop of these messages, Tatarstan Children's Ombudsman Irina Volynets appealed to Roskomnadzor with a demand to check «The Boy's Word» for compliance with the decree of the President of the Russian Federation on state policy to preserve and strengthen traditional Russian spiritual and moral values ​​and to ban its broadcast. Volynets emphasized that the series, despite the “18+” label, is downloaded and watched by children, on whose psyche, in her opinion, it has a destructive effect. Also, the chairman of the State Duma Committee for Family Protection, Nina Ostanina, addressed the Investigative Committee and Roskomnadzor with a request to check the series for the purpose of promoting a dangerous lifestyle for teenagers.
Meanwhile, the prosecutor of Tatarstan Albert Suyargulov came to the defense of the series, saying that “individual forces” may try to use “The Boy’s Word” in their interests, but it has the right to life as a form of art, and thinking people always do the right thing conclusions from any series.