The Boy's Word: Blood on the Asphalt

Name: The Boy's Word: Blood on the Asphalt
Genre: Drama, Crime
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Ivan Yankovsky, Ruzil Minekaev, Leon Kemstach, Anastasiya Krasovskaya, Anna Peresild

The boys don't apologize

Слово пацана. Кровь на асфальте (2023)

Seasons: 1, episodes: 8

Episode runtime: 52 min

Average rating: 8.1/10 1 077 186

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Video for the series The Boy's Word: Blood on the Asphalt — Trailer [Subtitled]

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Premiere

2023-11-09

Last episode

2023-12-21

Status

Ended

Country

Russia

Network

NTV , START, Wink

Production

Start Studio, NTV, Wink, IRI, NMG Studio, Toomuch Production

Genre

Drama, Crime

Actors

Ivan Yankovsky, Ruzil Minekaev, Leon Kemstach, Anastasiya Krasovskaya, Anna Peresild, Nikita Kologrivyi, Elizaveta Bazykina, Yuliya Aleksandrova, Sergey Burunov, Anton Vasilyev
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Timur Weinstein, Vitaly Shlyappo, Denis Zhalinsky, Alexander Kosarim, Dmitry Tabarchuk, Aleksey Zemskiy, Galina Strizhevskaya, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Maksim Rybakov, Georgy Shabanov

Camera operator

Yury Korobeynikov

Composer

Editing

Aleksandr Verkholyak, Egor Tarasenko, Alexander Ivanov
Whole Team (25)

Short description

In the late 1980s, when “perestroika” was taking place in the USSR and the era of the Soviet Union was about to collapse, life became unstable and very different. The 1980s brought not only freedom, but also waves of crime on the city streets. While some young people began to ‘grow up’ on the streets, others found it difficult to find their place in this unpredictable reality. Andrey, lives with his mother and five-year-old sister. He studies at a music school and often encounters street teenagers who harass him. To protect himself, Andrey makes friends with one of these teenagers, Marat, who introduces him to gang life. Youth groups fight for every piece of territory; they defend their right to live the life, even breaking laws and promises. The only thing that matters to them is the vows they make to their gang members-brothers, with whom they confront the violence and fears of the adult world.

Seasons

Season	Episodes	Release date	Rating
Season 1	8	2023-11-09	6.7

What's left behind the scenes

At the 6-minute mark of Season 1, Episode 4, during a chase, a police UAZ collides with a passenger car. A pedestrian crossing marked with yellow-and-white stripes is visible in this shot. Such markings only appeared in the 2010s.
Despite the similarity in title, the series is not an adaptation of the book 'Slovo Patsana: Criminal Tatarstan 1970s–2010s'. However, its author, Robert Garayev, participated in the project as a consultant and was subsequently included in the credits as one of the screenwriters.
The series was filmed in Yaroslavl.
In many outdoor scenes, plastic double-glazed windows are visible in the windows of residential buildings. In Russia, these appeared only in the 1990s and became commonplace in the 2000s.
A hockey rink was built specifically for the shoot. Yaroslavl officials asked for it to be donated to the city and not dismantled after filming, but the series production team did not comply with the local administration's request.
After the release of the third episode, director Zhora Kryzhovnikov decided to reshoot some scenes in the seventh and eighth episodes to slightly alter the finale.