Kiev Day and Night
Kiev Day and Night (Ukrainian: КИЇВ ВДЕНЬ ТА ВНОЧІ) is a Ukrainian scripted reality television series based on an adaptation of the 2011 German series Berlin – Tag & Nacht which starred lead characters Oksana Avram, Bohdan Sheludyak and Karina Gavrylyuk until 2017. The reboot of season 5 was premiered on August 28, 2018, with some of original cast members removed and substituted. As a result, the main casts of season 5 are Alina London, Anastasia Durkot and Maxim Sosnovsky. It was filmed in Kyiv and broadcast on Novyi Kanal from March 8, 2016 to January 8, 2019 at 9:00 to 21:00 timeslot.[2][3]
| Kiev Day and Night | |
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| КИЇВ ВДЕНЬ ТА ВНОЧІ | |
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| Based on | Berlin – Tag & Nacht |
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| Narrated by | Konstantin Voitenko |
| Opening theme | "Киев днем и ночью" by O.Torvald |
| Country of origin | Ukraine |
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| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 264 |
| Production | |
| Production location(s) | Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 33–72 minutes[nb 1] |
| Release | |
| Original network | Novyi Kanal |
| Picture format | HDTV, 1080p (16:9) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | March 8, 2016 – January 8, 2019 |
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In Kiev Day and Night, a group of five young friends rent an apartment that settled in Kyiv's hub to live in socialistic way. When the story succession implies additional characters have been joined the group sharing the same room, and they may encounter various romantic, familial and friendship problems and typically extramarital tendency has attracted them to cause irreconcilable difference and lack of love. Oksana appears as a true lover, but when she loved Bogdan who impregnated her and subsequently Pasha, they did not really give a genuine affection. In the season 4, Sasha proposes her and accepts him, and posit they continue a happy romance. The principal theme of the title "Kiev" is intended to reflect the city through which the characters "want to conquer it". Kiev Day and Night is strongly censored of having sexually aggressive contents and the actors performance in nudity, though fogging system hides every scenes.[4][5][6] In the fall of 2018, Novyi Kanal decided to stop broadcasting the series, and it was cancelled in 2019 during the fifth season.[7] The channel asserted immediate cancellation at the half of segments and were working to broadcast 7 I Roses on behalf of, according to the head of press service Svitlana Tsybanyova.[8] The series used bilingual versions; the first three seasons are Russian language while the soundtrack also produced in such language. Both Ukrainian and Russian language were intermixed in season 4 whereas the season 5 used native language Ukrainian.
Series overview
Setting
The series settled in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv,[9] where the camera angles show the aspects of crowds, metropolitan areas of the city in either aerial or ground view. The series director Ksenia Bugrimova said that he opted the series to film in Kyiv because the idea originated by consolidating characters from different regions to Kyiv and demonstrates everyday lifestyle of Ukrainian people. Bugrimova also maintains the casts' personal name employment depending on their personas while the remaining applied by using different persona names. The filming production began in August 2015.[6]
I think our viewers felt that the stories of the guys came to a logical end. There were a lot of comments: they say, what else? Well, what else could happen to these guys? We love all our heroes who have been with us all these four seasons. They managed to become related and become a family, to feel like parents of the guys. But, probably, in all families there comes a period when children need to be released into free swimming, so that they become better, reach new heights in their lives. The guys grew up and clearly understood what they want from life. And I really hope that at least a tiny percentage of this is the merit of Kiev Day and Night.[10]
— Inna Melnyk
Plot
Season 1–4
Plot involving Bogdan, Oksana, Albina, Karina, Sasha and Pasha
A group of four young friends – Karina, Albina, Bogdan and Sasha – rent an apartment in twenty-fourth floor. The people live with socially gathering in one room. Bogdan, a photographer, and Karina, a professional singer dwell in one room, where they live as couple, whereas Albina and Sasha lodged separately. Bogdan informs Oksana to live in the apartment while she boarding in train to Kyiv. As she arrived, her luggage is stolen while she buys something from shop. Oksana greets with Sasha and Albina, while Karina doubts she is to be Bogdan's new girlfriend and develops more animosity towards her. Karina displeased about their relationship and frequently schemes against her and others, therefore changing to malevolent. When Oksana notice Bogdan starts sex with multiple women, she leaves him and meets with Pasha, who works in garage and he had reluctantly engages with Rita, a daughter of businessman named Andrei (appears at the end of season 3). Nevertheless, Oksana continues dating with him and spent a romantic periods and finally they get married. They have almost a happy life until Pasha betrayed her, he secretly has had an extramarital relation with other women. Oksana finds out his all scandals, devorce him.
As the story goes on, she fall in love with Bogdan again and Pasha becomes more furious when he see their friendship. In season 3 episode 36, Oksana pregnant with Bogdan and give birth to baby. After the growth of child, Bogdan earnestly responsible for a fond protection, although his attitude does not comply Oksana's feeling. At the beginning of season 4, Nastya, a sexually harassed girl escapes from wedding as a result of her final decision of forced marriage and joins the group, from whom Bogdan starts a romantic relation. While Epifanio hinders Bogdan to approach either Oksana and Nastya, or having sex with them, Bogdan forced to focus on his child and becomes alone. In season 4, Pasha reintroduced with Olezhka and Karina at nightclub, with the help Olezhka, Pasha fall in love with Karina, and the two romantically engaged.
In season 4 episode 15, Sasha spontaneously fall in love with Oksana during his proposition, and the two become engaged. In the final episode, Sasha and Oksana marry, alongside Albina and Oleksandr, Karina and Oksana reconcile, and the story ended with the pair couples kissing each other as the firecrackers sparked at the sky and all wedding attendees surrounded them.[11][12][13][14][15]
Rita's family
At the end of season 3, Rita's father Andrei arrived to Kyiv when she is hiking with Sasha. Soon after Yana welcomes her youngest daughter Kristina. Yana exploits Kristina from going anywhere while Rita allows her to freely roam with her, which makes Yana anger. By default, Andrei thought that Yana made extramarital relation and breaks silence, but they become reconciled eventually. In episode 46, Andrei settles the siblings living issues, he granted their passport to live outside Kyiv. Recognizing the past family tussle, Rita and Kristina departed from their parent house and exit their hometown to live together.
Arthur and Diana
Arthur finds Diana at hotel and start their love story, though their relation deemed as short-lived. Arthur also slept with Kristina following a house party held by Rita, and he also engaged to Rita while Andrei disliked him so. Arthur and Diana relationship solved their problem and enjoyed a happy life in the final scene.
Andrei's restaurant
Starting from season 4, Andrei opened a restaurant that is run by Epifanio and Pasha. The leadership of the restaurant is disputed between these two persons, competitive. It has ventures different legal issues. Andrei divides each individual for certain tasks. Nastya also works within, but faced threats by her sister due to she supposed has an affair with Epifanio. A bartender Arthur is dismissed by Andrei due to alleged romantic connection with Rita. Oksana has been the professional cake maker in it.
Nastya and Alina
In season 4, a bride named Nastya accidentally intercepted to the group's share taxi when she seeks hideout to avoid marrying her bridegroom, who sexually abused her. She firstly meets with Oksana, Sasha and Bogdan, and told them what she happened from the beginning. During that night, Nastya attempted to inject poison to Epifanio in his sleep as Albina come upon and failed her action. Nastya begins a covert relationship to Bogdan, who loves her very much. As the fact becomes light, Nastya denied the relation, disliking him so well while Bogdan promises not return to Oksana.
In the middle episode, Nastya's sister Alina return to Kyiv, who firstly uses Arthur as a puppet for espionage. Alina has many mental disorders that trigger to attack someone who has been her friend and often her case ruled as insanity defense. Soon after their dating, Alina stabbed and kidnapped him and gagged to log cabin, and cut Nastya's wrist with knife and rendered unconsciousness. Upon police investigating the scene, Alina again attempted to stab him to death before he nearly escapes from the log cabin. Alina is very interested to Epifanio, and become dated.
In episode 45, Alina stabbed Epifanio's shoulder while she kisses him, and saved by Nastya and Bogdan as Pasha calls for medical help. Epifanio sustained from less blood loss from veins and healed within a week. Subsequently, Alina transferred to mental asylum and entered in custody, which finally been there as soon as recovery to her mental illness.
Season 5
In August 2018, a reboot of the series premiered, with some original cast members removed.[16][17] Albina, Oleksandr, Pasha and finally Nazar (season 4) remained from previous seasons. There is also character's replacement in this season. In cases, characters Alina and Nastya were replaced by new actors with the same real name. Model Maxim "Fizruk" Sosnovsky has been nominated by audience as "Top Model of Ukraine" to role in the series. Similar to the previous seasons, the season affixed in story including love, disappointment, and happiness. The plot revolves around a group of three people want to conquer Kyiv.[18]
Episodes
| Season | Еpisodes | Originally aired | ||
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| 1 | 48 | March 8, 2016 | May 27, 2016 | |
| 2 | 60 | September 13, 2016 | December 23, 2016 | |
| 3 | 36 | April 4, 2017 | June 2, 2017 | |
| 4 | 48 | September 19, 2017 | December 8, 2017 | |
| 5 | 72 | August 28, 2018 | January 8, 2019 | |
Casts and characters
Main
Season 1–4
- Oksana Avram as herself – a girl from Lviv. After residing in Kyiv and joining all four roommates, she works in cake decorating. In season 4, she is seen working with Andre's restaurant which also run by Pasha and Epifanio jointly. Her persona is kind and gentle woman that makes her beloved even if Karina disliked her in case of preoccupation with Bogdan. She betrayed by Pasha of having affair with other women in their marriage, which likely divorce him. She fall in love with Sasha in season 4 and married simultaneously with the wedding of Albina and Oleksandr.
- Bohdan Sheludyak as Bogdan – a photographer from a small town. He first fall in love with Oksana and give birth to a baby, who protected him fatherly but he disregarded Oksana and start a covert relation with Nastya.
- Karina Gavrilyuk as herself – a singer from Khmelnitsky. A sole antagonist of Oksana and others because of Bogdan and his trend towards Oksana. She eventually fall in love with Pasha.
- Albina Break as herself – a girl from the Sumy region. An overweight woman, she always concerning about her body, measuring her weight in daily basis, while her eating disorder is persisted since her younger age. She is close friend and acquaintance to Oksana since the beginning of the series. She fall in love with Oleksandr (in season 3) and married him (season 4) along with Oksana and Sasha's wedding.
- Pavel Sergienko as Pasha – a mechanic and later manager of restaurant owned by Andrei, a father of Rita and husband of Yana. He fall in love with Oksana in the first season and they married. Pasha betrayed Oksana of having affair with other women, which led her to divorce him. When Olezkha debuts in season 4, Pasha apparently reintroduced to Karina, and together fall in love in process. Olezkha, Karina and Pasha bought a house and anew their life. In season 4, Pasha also complains to Andrei about the duty in his restaurant while Epifanio obsessed variety of tasks and gaining profit without Pasha sharing it.
- Oleksandr Voronyi as himself – a police detective and Albina's husband. They get married with Oksana and Sasha's wedding.
- Alexander Ozolin as Sasha – a perfect breakdancer from Kyiv. Sasha also trained with street graffiti and also seldomly enjoys at drawing in their room's wall. He has a pet raccoon which is a companion overtime until he delivered it to zoo in season 3. Sasha is joyous and comic and does not care about nothing. In season 4, he fall in love with Oksana and they get married with the wedding of Albina and Oleksandr.
- Epifanio López as himself - he debuted in season 3, in role of Oksana's protector. Epifanio was betrayed and stabbed by Nastya's sister during their engagement, Alina forced to transfer in mental asylum. He also get in dispute to Pasha in case of Andrei's restaurant leadership.
Season 5
- Anastasia Durkot as Nastya – a waitress who substitute the season 4 Nastya, a bride who escaped the wedding and intercepted to the group's share taxi belonged to Oksana, Sasha and Bogdan, joining the group. Nastya wishs to get university but prefers to continue her task in hotel. She finds Ruslan and left him in the last episode.
- Maxim Sosnovsky as Max – a model from Mogilev-Podolsky.
- Alina London as herself – a girl who substitutes the season 4 Alina, a sister of Nastya. Alina meets with Nazar in nightclub and romantically engaged since the beginning of the season, although she leaves him in the last episode slipping a note in the table that describes her decision to go out of Kyiv.
- Nazar Kukharenko as himself – a businessman from Mykolaiv. He initially debuts in season 4 having a role of Andrei's client and Rita's love interest. In season 5, he played as Alina's boyfriend but she left him in the last episode with a note slipped in the table.
- Polina Kovalevskaya as herself – a girl works in her parents' restaurant.
- Semyon Tereshchenko as himself – a professional drummer from Mykolaiv.
- Yaroslav Zhytomyr as Iasi
Supporting
- Taisiia-Oksana Shchuruk as herself
- Arthur Logay as himself
- Victoria Maremukh as herself
- Anastasia Kotlyar as Nastya
- Oleg Mashukov as Olezhka
- Margarita Avramenko as Rita
- Viktor Andrushchenko as Viti
- Maria Yakimenko as Mary
- Jan Smolentsev as Yana
- Julia Fedorets as herself
- Ruslan Huseynov as himself
- Yulia Yashnikov as Julia
- Vladislav Gonchar as Vani
- Artem Oganesyan as himself
Rating
On the Otzovik website, the series aggregated 80%.[19] Irecommend gave 5 stars while gaining 6 votes.[20] Meanwhile, OTZYVUA gave only 1.4 stars, which is the lowest aggregate recorded.[21]
Awards and nominations
| Year | Premium | Category | Nominee | Result |
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| 2018 | Тeletriumph | Docudrama, scripted reality | Nominated | |
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Notes
- Produced videos are estimated between minimum 33 and maximum 72 timespan in YouTube channel.[1]
External links
- Киев днем и ночью on YouTube