Eighties

"Eighties" - a Russian comedy television series. It was broadcast from January 30, 2012 to June 16, 2016 on the STS channel.

The producer is Lean-M company with the participation of Sony Pictures Television, season 1–4 is Good Story Media company, season 5–6 is Solo Film.

In 2019, the “spiritual sequel” of the “Eighties” - “90s. Fun and Loud ”with a different cast and storyline.

Tagline: How well we lived poorly!

Plot
The events of the series take place in the USSR in 1986-1988. This is a story about the life of ordinary Soviet people, about youth, about nascent romantic feelings. Everyday stories about love and friendship unfold against the backdrop of events that have led to fundamental changes in the life of the country. The protagonist of the series is Ivan. He is in his second year at the institute, lives with his parents and younger brother, and is friends with his best friend Seryoga. Soon Vanya meets Seryoga Borey’s neighbor, who came from Kuibyshev. Vanya meets a girl named Inga, he falls in love with her, but she does not reciprocate. Inga settles in the hostel and gets acquainted with a neighbor, whose name is Masha - she is the head of the institute. For Inga to notice Vanya, he and Seryoga decide to arrange an apartment where Viktor Tsoi should be present at the time when his parents are leaving for an excursion to Leningrad. Tsoi never arrives, and as a result, a tenant rescues Galdin, who laid eyes on Inga. Because of the apartment, Vanya’s family broke the TV and he had to get a job, where he soon met Katya and they temporarily became a couple, and Inga started dating Galdin.

Six months have passed since Vanya meets with Katya, and Inga with Galdin. A lot of interesting things happen not only for him, but also for his friends. Masha still puts public interests above personal ones, Borya has become a great man for these six months - he is entrusted with managing the radio room of the institute, Sergey is inspired by the idea to organize a disco. Gena, the father of Vanya, has a brother - Kolya, who is married to Tamara and who had no children for a long time, but soon the time comes when Gena becomes an uncle. After Inga broke up with Galdin, Vanya has a second wind and he decides to part with Katya, but because of Lyudmila, Ivan’s mother, he doesn’t get it and he decides to marry Katya, but it soon becomes clear that Katya does not like him and they break up. Meanwhile, Inga meets the head of the committee, Stas Tikhonovich, who helps organize a disco, he falls in love with Inga and, like Vanya, tries to win her heart. Sergei, meanwhile, falls in love with Masha, and they become a couple. At the end of the second season, Inga leaves the hostel and moves to Kolya and Tamara’s apartment, who are going on vacation. Everything is fine until Inga's father arrives and decides to pick her up. As a result, Vanya confesses Inge love and they spend the last night together. In the morning Vanya wakes up alone, and Inga flies to Paris.

At the beginning of the third season, Vanya gets a job in a video showroom, which opened at the base of the house of culture. There, he meets Tanya, the daughter (as it later turned out to be his mistress) of Yuri, an official of the Ministry of Culture, who owns the video show. Seryoga, a friend of Ivan, will marry Masha.

In the fourth season, the main character Vanya decides to open a photo cooperative. However, the initiative is turning into major problems. Galina (wife of Yuri) makes a young man a tempting financial offer, which he cannot refuse. Ivan flies to Paris, where he celebrates the New Year with Inga, who now works as a waitress in a cafe in Montmartre [18]. Katya, meanwhile, meets a guy Makar. Three months after the new year, she moves to Makar and builds a career as an air hostess. At the end of the fourth season, Vanya finally abandons Tanya, because she betrays him, and Inga leaves France and returns to Vana forever. Masha files a divorce, and Borya confesses to Masha her feelings and offers her to fly to Israel, but Seryoga returns his beloved wife.

In the fifth season, Vanya quarrels with Inga over Galdin, their relationship ends. Ivan takes a job as a photojournalist in the magazine "Spark", where he meets journalist Sasha, whom he later falls in love with. Borya returns to the USSR from Israel. Masha and Seryoga have a daughter of Light. At the end of the fifth season, Vanya is going to leave with Sasha for Baikonur, but Inga is trying to convince Vanya to stay with her.

In the final sixth season revealed the main intrigue. First, Vanya still chooses Sasha, for whose sake he was ready to go to Baikonur and parted with Inga. But the events did not stand still: Katya still made peace with Makar, Seryoga presented Masha with new surprises, and Borya and Sonya suffered separation. Vanya finally realizes that she loves Inga and is trying to disrupt her wedding with Anton. The last minutes of the final series show that he succeeds, and he finds happiness with Inga. Amid the personal relationships of the characters, rapid changes are taking place in the country: the last Soviet era of the 1980s ends and the "dashing 1990s" draw near.

Cast

 * Alexander Yakin - Ivan Gennadyevich Smirnov, the main character; a student of the second (1-2 seasons), third (3-5 seasons), fourth (5-6 seasons) courses of the Faculty of Economics of the Moscow Technical and Economic Institute. In love with Inga
 * Alexander Smirnov - Ivan Gennadyevich Smirnov (in adulthood - voice-overs)
 * Maria Aronova - Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Smirnova, mother of Ivan; dispatcher at the motor depot (up to 32 episodes), MP (from the 33rd episode), head of the department at the depot (up to the 89th episode), unemployed (from the 89th episode)
 * Alexander Polovtsev - Gennady Petrovich Smirnov, Ivan's father; factory worker (up to 32 series), labor teacher (33 series), unemployed (up to 78 series), seller of oyster mushrooms on the collective farm market (from 78 series)
 * Leonid Gromov - Nikolai Petrovich Smirnov, the elder brother of Gennady, uncle of Ivan; train chief
 * Julia Sules - Tamara Smirnova, wife of Nikolai Smirnov; bakery worker
 * Natalia Karpunina - Eleanor Konstantinovna Verigina; teacher of history of the CPSU, party organizer of the faculty
 * Natalya Zemtsova - Inga Lvovna Borodina, classmate and lover of Ivan; second-year student (1-2 seasons) of the Faculty of Economics; in 32 episodes, flew to Paris, and in 71 episodes, returned to the USSR; waitress (61 episodes); painter-plasterer (79 series); waitress in the Mirage bar (from episode 87); fourth-year student of the Faculty of Economics (5-6 seasons). In love with Vanya
 * Dmitry Belotserkovsky - Sergey Viktorovich Yakovlev, classmate and friend of Ivan; student of the second (1-2 seasons), third (3-5 seasons), fourth (5-6 seasons) courses of the Faculty of Economics, bartender in the Mirage bar (from 83 to 99 series), head of the institute's cultural sector (from 104 series )
 * Roman Fomin - Boris Levitsky, a friend of Ivan, Sergei’s neighbor in the hostel; economics student
 * Anna Tsukanova-Kott - Ekaterina Fedorovna Polyakova; chairman of the trade union committee of students (1-2 seasons), 1st secretary of the Komsomol committee (34-52 series), stewardess of international airlines (from 62 series), senior stewardess (from 78 to 96 series), student of the Moscow Technical and Economic Institute (with 1 to 61 series, and again from 96 series)
 * Anastasia Balyakina - Maria Yakovleva (nee Goncharenko), classmate of Ivan, Sergey's beloved (2-3 seasons), later his wife (from 3 seasons); 2nd Secretary of the Komsomol Committee
 * Nikita Efremov - Galdin (from 6 to 74 series), in love with Inga; rock musician; in 32 series he left the USSR, a member of the rock group "Zadovoljština" ("Pleasure") (74 series)
 * Egor Koreshkov - Stanislav Pavlovich Tikhanovich (from 18 to 52 series), a friend of Sergei; 2nd (before episode 27), 1st secretary of the Komsomol committee of the institute (episode 27–34)
 * Natalya Skomorokhova - Tatyana Pshenitsyna (from series 33 to 76); novice singer
 * Dmitry Khoronko - Arkady Pavlovich (from series 33 to 56); Director of the Mayakovsky Culture House
 * Sergey Yushkevich - Yuri Leonidovich Knyazev (from 33 to 70 series); Ministry of Culture official
 * Anna Nevskaya - Galina Semenovna Knyazeva (from 37 to 70 series); wife of Yuri Leonidovich
 * Vyacheslav Yevlantiev - Makar Galaktionov (from 57 series), Katya’s boyfriend; programmer
 * Arina Postnikova - Alexandra Novikova (from the 77th series); correspondent of the magazine "Spark" (up to 90 episodes); correspondent on Baikonur (from series 94 to 98); correspondent of the youth program “Up to 16 and older...” (since episode 98), Ivan’s former lover
 * Dmitry Miller - Ilya Borisovich Antonov (from series 77 to 90); editor of the Society department in the magazine Spark
 * Yaroslav Nikolaev - Sophia Goldstein (from 87 to 98 series), Boris's girl from Israel; in 98 series was deported from the USSR back to Israel
 * Alexei Demidov - Anton Fomin (from the 95th series), host of the youth program “Up to 16 and older...”, ex-boyfriend and groom of Inga

In episodes

 * Alexander Novitsky - Mikhail Gennadyevich Smirnov, Ivan's younger brother; schoolboy (1-4 seasons)
 * Egor Gubarev - Mikhail Gennadyevich Smirnov, Ivan's younger brother; schoolboy (5-6 seasons)
 * Irina Chipizhenko - Oktyabrina Stepanovna; dormitory guardian
 * Victoria Shashkova - Larisa Evgenievna Feofanova, Katya's friend; student
 * Plato Babykin - Pyotr Nikolaevich Smirnov (from the 58th series), the son of Nikolai and Tamara
 * Galina Stakhanova - Nina Ivanovna Smirnova, mother of Gennady and Nikolai, Ivan's grandmother (season 2)
 * Arthur Vakha - Dmitry Borisovich Chepelev, former boyfriend of Lyudmila; restaurant head waiter (1-4 seasons)
 * Evgeny Stychkin - Andrey Andreevich Nikiforov; KGB officer
 * Oleg Akulich - Madukalov; junior sergeant of police
 * Evgeny Tkachuk - Farther
 * Roman Mayakin - German; "Organizer" of the apartment of Tsoi, a swindler
 * Igor Lagutin - Victor Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Sergey's father (1, 3, 5, 6 seasons)
 * Oleg Komarov - telemaster
 * Alexey Panichev - Cake, informal; Galdin's bass player
 * Igor Yatsko - Fedor Viktorovich Polyakov, father of Katya
 * Andrey Andreev - Pavel Tikhanovich, father of Stas
 * Oleg Yesenin - Alexander Vasilyevich Maslyakov
 * Sergey Sosnovsky - Lev Borisovich Borodin, father of Inga; GAZ car factory representative in France
 * Dmitry Gorevoy - Anatoly, Masha's ex-boyfriend
 * Maxim Ratiner - Eugene Anatolyevich Kirkhevich, former head of Gennady Smirnova
 * Konstantin Chepurin - Mikhalych, a former colleague of Gennady Smirnov
 * Egor Timtsunik - Alexey (from 73 episodes), a friend of Vani
 * Edgar Gizatullin - Paul (since 73 episodes), a friend of Vani
 * Sergey Poghosyan - Suren Vazgenovich (from 83 episodes), the owner of the Mirage bar
 * Ruslan Mushrapilov - Egor Timurovich Gaidar (92 series)
 * Alexey Grishin - Denis Alekseevich Mogilev (since series 93), Rector of the Moscow Technical and Economic Institute, lecturer in economics of the socialist camp
 * Sergey Bagaev - Savelich (from series 93), Smirnov’s neighbor, a market employee