I'm Flying

I'm Flying (Russian: Я лечу) - The Russian television series, scripted by Igor Osipov and Alexei Karanovich, produced by Kostafilm with the support of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. The series tells about medical students, third-year students who first got to practice in a real hospital, where they have to deal with all the vicissitudes of their profession.

The series was shot in a real hospital in the Moscow region of Reutov. The premiere took place on April 18, 2008 on the STS channel. Repeat show - in 2009 under the name “I am flying. Revision of the case.”

Plot
The main character - Lera - a student at the medical institute, together with her fellow students gets to practice in a real hospital, where she meets with Gordeev - a surgeon from God. On the day of the anniversary of the death of her parents, Lera learns that the death of her parents was not accidental and begins her own dangerous investigation. But a new love appears in her life and plans are put off for the future.

Students of a medical university are sent to a hospital to undergo practice. According to the order of the head of the department, Irina Kovalets, the head surgeon of the group of young trainees is appointed lead surgeon Alexander Nikolaevich Gordeev, who is not at all enthusiastic about this circumstance, but is forced to agree to take them to his place.

The first acquaintance does not please him or the students. He has a particularly difficult relationship with Valeria Chekhova and her half-brother Gleb Lobov, the son of the head doctor of the hospital. Subsequently, Gordeev learns that Lera is not Lobov’s own daughter, and her real parents died seven years ago. After she herself saves the patient Ignatieff, relations between her and Gordeev are somewhat improved. The girl learns from the conversations of her stepfather and stepmother that the death of her relatives was not accidental, and begins her own investigation.

Mistress Gordeeva, a general practitioner Nina Starkova, notes that feelings arise between him and Lera. Nina begins to be jealous of her, and, combining her efforts with Gleb, personally interested in this matter, tries to intrigue against Chekhova. Alexander Nikolaevich realizes that he has fallen in love; Lera feels the same way. But as soon as their relations fly uphill, the ex-wife of Gordeev, Zhenya, comes from Moscow (Eugene), and everything flies downhill. She offers her husband a job in Moscow, and he agrees, but at the last moment hides from everyone in the country of her best friend Vadim Kuratov. Lera continues her investigation; her friend and fellow student Volodya Rudakovsky (Tweezers) helps her. Later, the girl finds out the whereabouts of her lover and comes to him.

Gordeev remains in the country, and Lera is forced to go to the hospital. When she returns home, she is attacked by hooligans employed by Inna, the girl of Gleb, who is jealous of him. Young Lobov knows in advance about the attack and rescues Chekhov, but he gets stabbed, and then confesses his love to her. An ambulance takes him to the hospital. Kovalets was on duty that night, and Lera urgently leaves for Gordeev. He enters the operating room at the moment when the young woman began to operate on Irina Vasilievna, and replaces her. Everyone understands that only thanks to Gordeev the case ended successfully.

After the operation, Gleb, Alexander Nikolayevich decided to take a serious step. He goes to Moscow, where he divorces his wife, and when he returns, he makes an offer to Lera. They submit an application to the registry office, and Chekhov moves to live with his beloved. Alla stops plotting her. Then the girl remembers her investigation and, together with Gordeev, looks through the documents of her father. Both learn about the illegal testing of a non-certified drug in children.

The Equator is approaching - a student holiday. Students decide to mark him at Kuratov’s dacha. During this event, Denis, who came with his sister, becomes ill, and he falls into a coma. Lera takes out her brother’s hospital card and finds there a mention of the drug that appears in their father’s notes. During the investigation, she finds out that the businessman Grigory Emelyanov is guilty of the death of her parents. Meanwhile, an old neurosurgeon Popov arrives at the hospital with the goal of examining a boy who sees Gordeev and recognizes him as his former wizard student who disappeared two years ago. He is going to operate on Denis, but soon, under the pressure of doctors, he refuses and leaves somewhere. A day later, he returns with his Moscow colleagues and brings the patient back to life.

Lera's stepmother tells her the whole truth. It turns out that she, and Emelyanov, and a strange stranger were involved in the deaths of the Chekhov spouses.
 * Lera: And you sacrificed my family to save yours.
 * Alla: I did not know what would happen...
 * Lera: You did not know or did not want to know?


 * Gordeev: I will operate Alla Evgenievna.
 * Lera: I'm with you.
 * Gordeev: You just said that she was involved in the death of your parents...
 * Lera: It doesn’t matter now, because Alla is sick, and I'm a doctor. The future doctor...
 * Gordeev: You are a doctor.

Cast

 * Valeria Chekhova - 3rd year student, 20-21 years old, adopted daughter of the head physician of the surgical center Oleg Viktorovich Lobov. A girl with a kind and sympathetic heart, dreams of healing Denis’s brother from a brain tumor and that’s why she decides to devote her life to neurosurgery. In his free time, deepens his knowledge, reads medical literature. Lera believes that the death of her parents seven years ago in a car accident was not accidental, and she is trying to independently investigate the details of this case in order to find evidence.
 * Alexander Nikolaevich Gordeev is a talented surgeon “from God”, who is appointed the head of student practice. 37 years. Strict, extremely pungent, stubborn, quick-tempered, impatient for the ignorance of students and the incompetence of colleagues, especially with regard to his adored surgery, but fair. He is not interested in a career, he is simply devoted to his work, cannot live without his job and sticks out on it for days. I’m ready to defend my point of view to the end, because of which I have constant problems with the bosses, but even in this situation, the leadership evokes involuntary respect for its honesty and directness.
 * Vladimir Rudakovsky (Tweezers) is a 3rd year student, a former classmate of Lera and her best friend, secretly in love with her since childhood. I went to the medical institute after Lera, although I got along better with information technology. A classic lanky muddler and a loser you can always count on. He seeks to protect Leroux from all kinds of troubles and potential competitors.
 * Valentina Shostko is a 3rd year student. Warden of the group. Incredibly responsible, punctual, pedantic and strict frivolous small growth with an inferiority complex and a complete lack of personal life. Zheleznaya Shostko sacredly honors the letter of the law, whether it be an order from the dean’s office or hospital rules, and will not forgive anyone for breaking. Although sometimes it covers classmates on an old friendship.
 * Nikolai Frolov (Frol) is a 3rd year student, part-time he works as an ambulance paramedic at night and dreams of getting a diploma to become a real doctor. Already an adult and a fully-fledged man, he has his own family: he is married to Marina Frolova, has a small daughter Veronika and a mother-in-law, with whom a very difficult relationship has developed. Constantly experiencing financial difficulties due to the fact that he is forced to provide for his family. She never gets enough sleep due to night shifts and falls asleep all the time, sometimes even right at the lectures of Dr. Gordeev and in the ward of patients whom he oversees.
 * Anatoly Smertin is a 3rd year student. A newcomer with an unknown past, who has moved to another city and has just been transferred to a group. Beautiful, gallant and courteous with girls, born Don Juan. In love with fellow student Vika Alkovich. He treats the practice in the hospital carelessly, likes to make fun of classmates and management, but his jokes are not always brought to good.
 * Vika Alkovich - 3rd year student, Lera's best friend. A beautiful, strong-willed and independent girl, vulnerable in the soul. He loves children and wants to have his own full-fledged family. She does not care about petty conventions like punctuality or a working form, but when it comes to something serious, she always acts in fairness, even if it runs counter to her own desires and interests. In love with classmate Anatoly Smertin.
 * Rudolf Novikov (Rudik) is a 3rd year student. The Nerd, a walking medical encyclopedia, considers it necessary to consult its ignorant classmates and leaders, especially if they don't ask him about it. Vulnerable, gloomy, does not tolerate mockery of himself and his knowledge, loves to wisdom publicly, which brings friends and colleagues to a white heat.
 * Masha Kapustina is a 3rd year student. The innocent and harmless red-haired girl from the village, the target student, after graduation, must return to her native village and work as a doctor there. He blunders patients with life-affirming stories about relatives and friends for therapeutic purposes. He cooks well, bakes delicious pies and knows all about folk remedies for treating diseases.
 * Gleb Lobov is a 3rd year student, the son of the head physician Lobov and half brother of Lera. Secretly in love with Leroux and trying to achieve her reciprocity by all available means, constantly arranging troubles for her competitors. He does not want to be a doctor; his fate was determined for him by his parents. It looks like an irresponsible cheek under the auspices of daddy, but in fact a good person, carefully hiding his true feelings and decency.
 * Oleg Viktorovich Lobov - head physician of the surgical center and its head. The adoptive father of Lera and Denis, the father of Gleb. Once he was a good surgeon, but he had long lost his qualifications and turned into a bureaucrat due to the constant flow of small hospital problems. A middle-aged, quick-tempered, flashy, breathless man. He always defends the interests of his native institution, often swears with Gordeev because of the incompatibility of positions, but respects him as a person and as a professional surgeon. He buys medicine from the pharmaceutical company of his wife Alla, which gives him a lot of trouble and slanting glances.
 * Alla Evgenievna (Vyacheslavovna) Lobova - Director and owner of a pharmaceutical company. The wife of Oleg Viktorovich Lobov, the adoptive mother of Lera and Denis, the mother of Gleb. A tough, decisive and prudent business woman who herself made a fortune and arranged her life in all respects. Madly in love with Gleb and protects him, first of all, he treats the presence of Lera and Denis in the family as an inevitable reality with which to reconcile.
 * Fyodor Ilyich Ankushev is a mysterious person, come from a blackmailer with a dark past. Constantly calls Alla with threats and pursues Leroux, trying to tell her something about the death of her parents.
 * Semyon Arkadyevich Stepanyuga - Gordeev’s colleague in the surgical department. In contrast, he is a very mediocre surgeon, neglecting work and, as a result, constantly making serious medical errors. Desperately envious of the younger, more experienced and talented Gordeev. Contemptuously treats patients with whom there is nothing to take, and fawns before those who are ready to generously fork out. A typical slippery careerist - takes the merits of others where it is profitable, and dumps the blame and responsibility on others where this can be done. Thanks to incredible resourcefulness and luck, he gets out of dangerous situations for him and still holds on to his workplace.
 * Irina Vasilievna Kovalets - head of the surgical department, already a middle-aged woman with professional acumen and a good sense of humor. An excellent qualified surgeon and a good leader who cares about his department. She patronizes Gordeeva, with whom she has developed friendly relations both on professional and personal grounds, covers him in front of his superiors - Lobov - and, to the extent possible, protects Stepanyuga from intrigues.
 * Lidia Gavrilovna Zhukova - head of the surgical department, who replaced Kovalets after her promotion. Calm and quiet, but respecting her competence, a middle-aged woman takes a responsible approach to restoring order in the institution entrusted to her.
 * Vadim Georgievich Kuratov is a gastroenterologist, a good friend of Gordeev and his former classmate. A nice, slightly plump man with thick bass, a wonderful doctor. It has a well-equipped summer cottage, which is often provided by Gordeev for free use.
 * Denis Chekhov is Lera’s brother, a serious and completely independent young man. She loves her sister. He suffers from a tumor (cavernoma) of the brain, because of which he often has a headache, but carefully hides his malaise from his sister so as not to upset her.
 * Nina Alekseevna Starkova - therapist, lover of Gordeeva. A beautiful and sensual woman who wants to find her quiet family happiness, a good specialist. Intrigues with student Gleb Lobov against Lera.
 * Evgenia Borisovna Gordeeva is the wife of Gordeeva, with whom he is still formally married. Also a business woman, however softer and more attractive than Alla. After a long break in relations, she wants to bring her husband back.