How it all began...
A uniquely equipped office was built in the center of Moscow. According to all legal rules, the established firm - the art center "Russian Miracle" - had to select participants for domestic and Western shows. Job advertisements were printed in the media. 700 people came to the interview. They were hired by business consultants, for whom the following qualities of applicants were important: excessive vanity, adventurism and a desire to make a quick career.
Then a new advertising campaign was carried out in the press and on television: people with phenomenal abilities or extraordinary appearance were invited to participate in various shows (for a long time it was also on "Inter"). The Russian Miracle art center opened on August 5 in the center of Moscow, and the selected heroes began to work as experts of real talents. In total, the work was carried out in seven directions: twins, doubles, imitators, people with infectious laughter and physical disabilities, smart beauties, and original life stories were entered into the database. Very quickly they got used to their new role and entered the world of show business ...
... and in the meantime behind the scenes
On the floor below, behind the double doors of a mythical organization with the common name "Spetsvyazkomplekt", they also worked - a new unprecedented project in the style of real television was being filmed there. The subject of filming was the office of the "Russian Miracle", its unsuspecting agency managers and their clients.
This have not happened before!
The project was being prepared for six months, but the office and television company itself was under construction for a month and a half. A room of six rooms was filled with sensitive microphones and 24 (!) Professional cameras and many eye cameras were installed behind the mirrors. If in other reality shows, the voices of the heroes were amplified by radio microphones, then here they needed high-quality sound throughout the office. The complete absence of windows in the office was explained to the employees by the legend about Barry Alibasov's recording studio that once existed here.
About ten applicants came to the agency during the day. Among the real people who wanted to show their talents, there were also actors prepared by the organizers of the show (a whole acting agency worked for the project). The incidents and misunderstandings that the managers of "Russian Miracle" had to deal with are invented by four scriptwriters. Sometimes it took a few minutes from the appearance of a scenario idea to its implementation, but it happened that the arrival of a visitor required careful preparation. So, for example, a whole script was written for Dmitry Dibrov, who played ... a double of Dmitry Dibrov. The well-known TV presenter appeared before the managers of the "Russian Miracle" as a stingy man who was interested in only one thing: how much he would be paid to resemble Dibrov.
It is worth noting that the organizers of the show made sure that the series of events and adventures did not look ridiculous - they diligently model real life. And also - constantly confronted the inhabitants of the office with a moral choice: they were offered bribes, asked to take on the blame of others, and were tested for courage and masculinity. They fell in love, quarreled, clashed and did not know that soon they would be asked permission to show all this on TV.
But the show might not have happened
One fine day, the show almost fell through. During a business trip to Kiev, when he was casting talent on the Inter TV channel, one of the agency's managers thought that he was in a terrible situation, possibly related to the mafia and drugs. Naturally, this affected his psychological state: he began to get nervous and inadequately respond to pranks and provocations. I had to reveal to him a terrible secret. Fortunately, the hero was delighted, played the last two days and immediately signed a document with permission to use his own shooting on television.
Way out
It all ended on Wednesday 28 August. The authors waited anxiously for the moment of exposure and went crazy, calculating the reaction of the heroes. For those who were especially impressionable, a "soft" version of the way out of the current situation was prepared, everyone else was in for a shock. One of the managers, Aleksey, saw the filming on REN-TV with a plot about the end of the unique experimental filming of the show, after which the presenter addressed him personally: “Aleksey Pavlov will be especially popular with the audience. Yes, Lesha, it's you! ". In general, each has its own answer.
Then the project participants were taken to the office of the REN-TV channel on Zubovsky Boulevard, where the organizers of the show and the leaders of the channel Irena and Dmitry Lesnevsky met with them. Here, each of the participants received an offer that they could not refuse ...