OREANDA-NEWS Rambler Group Alexandra Mamuta has become an investor and co-producer of the Bender film series, which will be removed based on the novel The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov.

The main role in the series will play Sergey Bezrukov.

According to employees of several media companies, Mr. Mamut has been discussing the possibility of creating films and TV shows together with producers for several years. For the Rambler Group, this was the first such project. It has become the second Russian Internet holding (after Yandex), which produces its content.

As noted, the shooting is done by the studio “Wednesday” by Alexander Tsekalo. Her representative said that the Rambler Group will fully finance the project. At the same time, the budget of the project is much higher than the cost of Gogol, but it does not specify how much (each of the eight series, according to employees of Gazprom-Media, cost 25 million rubles). The series will be broken into pieces, as it was with project "Gogol". The first of four episodes will be shown in cinemas in early 2020.