The Private School

Name: The Private School
Genre: Mystery, Drama
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Anton Khabarov, Pavel Priluchnyy, Tatyana Kosmacheva, Aleksey Koryakov, Agata Mutsenietse

Закрытая школа (2011-2012)

Seasons: 5, episodes: 134

Episode runtime: 48 min

Mystery, Drama

Russia

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Production

AMedia

Premiere

11 April 2011

Last episode

14 November 2012

Status

Completed

Scenario

Alla Maksimenko

Producer

Natalia Shneiderova

All team (23)

Actors

Anton Khabarov

Виктор Николаевич Поляков / Игорь Авдеев

Pavel Priluchnyy

Максим Морозов

Tatyana Kosmacheva

Виктория Кузнецова

Aleksey Koryakov

Андрей Авдеев

Agata Mutsenietse

Дарья Старкова

Igor Yurtayev

Роман Павленко

Yuliya Agafonova

Мария Вершиниа

Luiza-Gabriela Brovina

Надя Авдеева

All actors and roles (10)

Short description

An elite private school conceals dark secrets. When a teacher disappears, students embark on a perilous journey, facing obstacles and revelations before the gripping conclusion.

Seasons

Season	Episodes	Release date	Rating
Season 1	20	2011-04-11	—
Season 2	40	2011-10-03	—
Season 3	44	2012-03-26	—
Season 4	16	2012-09-03	—
Season 5	14	2012-10-22	—

What's left behind the scenes

At the 29th minute of episode 18 of season 1, Volodya searches Masha's room for unfamiliar symbols. The camera operator appears in the right side of the frame.
At the 41st minute of Season 2, Episode 11, in the opening shots of the conversation between Viktor and Sergey, the lip movements do not match the audio track. When Sergey responds, his lips do not move at all.
At the 19th minute of Season 2, Episode 36, while Yulia is talking to the taxi driver, the dialogue continues when the shot cuts to the rearview mirror; however, the mirror shows that the driver is no longer speaking.
At the 17th minute of Season 3, Episode 39, Liliya Skvortsova opens a laptop to look up information about bone marrow transplants. It can be seen that a link in the search results is highlighted in purple, indicating that it has already been visited from this computer. This is most likely an error.
At the 27th minute of Season 1, Episode 2, a police officer shows a wanted poster for Masha. There is a typo in the text: it says «32 лет» instead of «32 года».
At the 41st minute of Season 1, Episode 4, the mouse cursor on the laptop begins to move before Dasha even manages to bring her hand toward it.
At the 41st minute of the 4th episode of the 1st season, it is visible that Ptitsyn sent a letter to Starkova's personal address, although in previous episodes Dasha said she had contacted Ptitsyn via Ivan Savelievich's email.
The series was filmed in the historic Serednikovo estate in the Moscow region. The estate is the ancestral home of the Stolypin-Lermontov family. The young poet Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov spent his summer vacations here.
The interior scenes of the boarding school were filmed in AMEDIA company pavilions. Large-scale sets were specifically constructed for this purpose. Hollywood specialists were brought in for the work. A great deal of genuine antiques are used as props.
The working title of the series was "Internat" (The Boarding School).
The role of Daria Starkova was originally intended for Marina Petrenko, but the role was given to Agata Mutsenietse.
In some moments, Volodya the cook is unshaven/untrimmed, while in others he is. For example, when he goes into the forest, his hair covers his ears in all the scenes, but when he is in the school building, he has a short haircut.
The series is a Russian interpretation of the Spanish series 'El internado: Laguna negra'.