“For our project, this is simply an unprecedented success. The series, where the main character is not a bandit, not a policeman, not a businessman, not a psychologist, as in most modern series, but a young scientist, has become so popular and has already gained more than 20 million views, which proves that today the viewer needs new heroes,” said the producer of the series Zhan Prosyanov. “And our Lavrik, played by the inimitable Vladimir Kanukhin, is one of the examples of this. The hero of our time that everyone is so actively looking for.”
According to the plot, the main character of the series is Lavrentiy Semenovich Timoshin, or simply Lavrik, a young, promising but very anxious candidate of sciences, who heads the biochemistry laboratory of a serious research university and has been developing a cure for fear for several years. Mainly of mine. Lavrik is afraid of everything: scientific achievements, his mother’s anger, love and reforms at the National Research University. The latter are not long in coming. The rector of the institute, Bogomolov, who has held this position for a long time, wants to give up his position to the younger generation and Lavrik is the best candidate. But many questions immediately arise: will this position be a blessing for Lavrik and will it still allow him to complete his research, especially when such drastic changes go far beyond career growth?
“I am very pleased that the Rector turned out exactly like this: it seems to be a mixture of light comedy and drama, but at the same time it raises such serious issues as the continuity and renewal of personnel, the importance of scientific activity and the development of scientific discoveries, corruption and the fight against it. As it turned out, all this resonated with the viewer,” Zhan Prosyanov summed up the results of the first big hit.
“Rector” is the first Russian streaming project dedicated to the scientific community. The production of the series was carried out by the Studio of Creative Initiatives “Otkritie” with the support of the Internet Development Institute (ANO “IRI”). The filming of the series took place at the MISIS University of Science and Technology. It was there that the scientific institute where the main character worked was located.
