a rare U.S./Ukraine co-production from Netflix’s , was filmed in Kyiv just prior to the war starting and editors, sound designers, composers, directors and others are now putting the finishing touches in the shelter.
Starring Artur Ignatenko, Liliya Tsvelikova and Aleksandr Melnik, the show is an original comedy series executive produced by Sergei Baranov, Marc Vayn, Karina Bezell and Igor Volkov. Ukrainian scribe Anton Skripets is writer/director. “Our editor was pulling the takes up, and the director and producers had to make a final decision via zoom,” he took up the story to Deadline. “The editor lives in the outskirts about 10 miles away, so when we had to bring him to Kyiv, the drive would take approximately two hours because of the ongoing military actions. The countless amounts of checkpoints took hours, and the soldiers would check the cars very thoroughly because of the fear of saboteurs.
Despite all the difficulties, he said, “resilience and high spirits” helped the team finish successfully.