Chinovnitsa Filming Locations
Where was Chinovnitsa filmed? Chinovnitsa was filmed in 3 locations across Russia in the following places:
Chinovnitsa Filming Locations
Vyborg is a town in western Russia, close to the Finnish border. Set on an island in Vyborg Bay, Vyborg Castle was built in the 13th century by Swedes. Today it houses a regional history museum. To the southeast, Hermitage-Vyborg Center exhibits paintings and artifacts from the State Hermitage Museum collection in St. Petersburg. Northwest of town, landscaped Monrepos Park is dotted with monuments and grottoes.
St. Petersburg is a Russian port city on the Baltic Sea. It was the imperial capital for 2 centuries, having been founded in 1703 by Peter the Great, subject of the city's iconic “Bronze Horseman” statue. It remains Russia's cultural center, with venues such as the Mariinsky Theatre hosting opera and ballet, and the State Russian Museum showcasing Russian art, from Orthodox icon paintings to Kandinsky works.
Kronstadt is a town and naval base on Kotlin Island, just west of St. Petersburg, Russia. Anchor Square is dotted with military memorials. On the square, the 20th-century Byzantine-style Naval Cathedral has an ornate interior. Tree-lined Petrovskiy Park is home to the 19th-century Monument to Peter the Great. Kronstadt History Museum displays regional artifacts. Offshore is the man-made island of Fort Alexander.
Chinovnitsa (2021)
Arina Alferova (played by Viktoriya Tolstoganova) is a civil servant working at a regional branch of the Ministry of Health. She has a happy life: a nice apartment in the city center, a good car, professional hair styling every morning, shopping trips to Moscow, jewelry, and expensive shoes. After all, the head of a ministry's finance department can afford to splash out- and sometimes even more. Especially if her lover does business with the biggest pharma company in the region. All she has to do in return is sign a couple of contracts, overlook some "accounting errors," and make sure the "right" people win the contracts. One of the beneficiaries is Tsalov, a pharma tycoon who has flooded the market with counterfeit and expired drugs. But Arina has no idea. She's so wrapped up in her personal life that she doesn't realize the true price of the documents she signs-a price that hundreds of people living in her region end up paying with their lives. One day, karma catches up to her when the fake pills cause a death in her family. The Official decides to infiltrate the corrupt "food chain," make her way to the very top-to the Minister-and take everyone down.