Dirty Russian
Грязный русский
A musician comes home after years abroad chasing a career — the city does not open its arms; old debts stay open, and a forgotten suitcase opens new ones.
Веб-серіал (6 епізодів, 2015). Музикант Костет повертається в рідне місто після двох років спроб зробити кар’єру за кордоном. Батьківщина не зустрічає з розкритими обіймами: стара група, колишня, забутий чемодан попутника й кримінальні історії. «Грязний» — і про «лузерів» поза бутиковим успіхом, і про живий розмовний язик. Сценарій: Саша Поберайло + Костя Черниш (Костет); виконавчий продюсер Антон Фролов; звук Валерій Бескорсий. Дебютний веб-серіал режисера; персонаж Костет раніше з’являвся в «Міських історіях».
Факти
- 2015
- Web series · 6 episodes
- Web seriesCrime-dramaMusicIndependentUkrainian cinema
- Russian
- Ukraine; Kharkiv
- Sasha Poberailo
Six-episode online season; grew from a short idea into multi-episode production with a year-long stop after early shoots. Episode streams historically on Dailymotion (e.g. x2fitwy…); one YouTube sample: watch?v=YvDZPMJrkaY (ep. material). Full season re-host on Cloudflare planned. Cast list from release cards: Chernysh, Lavrinenko, Bespalyi, Dvornikov, Letko, and ensemble. Related shorts in the same universe: I’ve Ordered You Some Coffee, It Seems…, Lucy in the Sky with Stars.
Теми
Homecoming without welcome
Return from “abroad career” fantasy to a city that kept moving. Unresolved debts — romantic, musical, social — are the plot engine more than a single crime twist.
Music vs living wage
Kostet’s arc continues the City Stories question “can you live by rock?” — band politics, bouncer past, and the gap between stage myth and cash.
“Dirty” as class and speech
Production notes refuse boutique-success heroes and theatre-clean Russian: losers who still hope, and dialogue that sounds like people, not drama school.
The suitcase as plot fuse
A stranger’s abandoned case is the concrete object that turns personal failure into criminal entanglement — noir economy in a small web-series budget.
Shared universe (City Stories → series)
Kostet is not invented for episode one: he already walked through coffee-bar and pickup novellas. Dirty Russian is the long-form expansion of a recurring face.
Персонажі
Kostet
Musician back from two years abroad. Tries to rejoin his band, face his ex, and opens a stranger’s case — drinks hard, fights for status, slides into danger. Earlier: bouncer/rock dreamer in “I’ve Ordered You Some Coffee”; cameos in “It Seems…”.
The vocalist (band)
Band-world foil; release notes flag movie-quote play (Terminator, Jarmusch titles) in dialogue — meta texture inside the scene.
Ensemble of the city
Friends, ex-circle, night economy — Lavrinenko, Bespalyi, Letko and others as the social weather Kostet returns into.
Карта сцен
Return / station of the case
Homecoming and the abandoned suitcase — the hinge from travel to trouble.
Band room & ex
Attempt to re-enter the group and the love plot; refusal and displacement.
Drinking spiral
Kostet drinks until the case becomes a decision — personal collapse before crime plot.
Night city / workshop backstage
Locations from release (clubs, workshops, streets) — Kharkiv independent texture.
- Sasha Poberailo
- Sasha Poberailo
- Kostya Chernysh
- Anton Frolov
- Sasha Poberailo
- Sasha Poberailo
- Sasha Poberailo
- Valery Beskorsy
- Kostya Chernysh
- Max Lavrinenko
- Alexei Bespalyi
- Alexander Dvornikov
- Oleg Letko
- Roman Beketskiy, Sergei Suslov, Anastasiya Kolesnikova, Christina Zherebnaya, and ensemble
Dirty Russian · Грязный русский · web series · Kostet · musician · homecoming · City Stories · independent film · Kharkiv
