Series and films about the prison. Choose the most interesting option

Films about the prison have long earned popularity with the viewer. Here and the "Green Mile", and "Escape from Shoutshenka" and many others. The list is very impressive. In 2005, the Fox channel presented its audience with the series "Prison Break" ("Escape from prison"), or rather, its first season.

Summary

Unlike most Russian movies about the prison, "Prison Break" opens up to the viewer an intricate dramatic plot. Michael Scofield, a smart guy and a successful businessman, wants to get Lincoln Burroughs, his elder brother, out of the Fox River (strict security prison) facility. The latter expects the death penalty there for allegedly killing the vice president of the United States. In fact, Barrow did not do it, he was framed. The only way to freedom is to flee, and without Michael's participation, this most sophisticated escape in the history of films about the prison and the zone is impossible.

Thinking about everything to the last detail, Scofield organizes a fake robbery of the bank, and for this they put him in the Fox River. There he begins to establish contacts with local prisoners and authorities, as well as with the staff of the prison. And gradually begins to prepare his escape, whose plan is always with him - he is encrypted in a tattoo that covers the entire torso and the arms of the guy. Michael took a direct part in the reconstruction of the Fox River, and had all the schemes and plans of this facility free. Therefore, when Scofield was sent there to serve time, he already knew perfectly well what to do.

Seasons

Films about the prison often illustrate that prisoners tend to break into gangs. So the prisoners in the Fox River are divided into several warring factions. However, Scofield needs help from people from different gangs, and he has to balance between the hostile parties, which causes a lot of trouble and problems. Yes, and get to the right parts and premises of the prison is quite problematic ... However, at stake is the life of a sibling, and there is no turning back.

The series consists of four seasons, and in the second season (2006-2007) the creators moved away from the prison theme. One blogger wrote: "The title" Escape from prison "should carry a TV series or a film about the prison, and in the second season there is no prison. I feel betrayed. If the rest of the seasons are not related to the zone, then the creators chose this name in vain. "

However, the directors seem to have understood this, and the third season (2007-2008) again confirmed the name of the series. Although, as Paul Schoyring (producer, producer and screenwriter of the series) rightly noted, "Films about the prison, for example," Escape from Shawshank, "escape itself only a couple of minutes. And this does not stop them from being the best films in the history of cinema. "

Russian remake

Realizing that films about the prison and the zone in Russia are quite popular, and the American and Russian jails are absolutely different concepts, the head of Channel One Konstantin Ernst decided to create a remake of the series adapted to our immense homeland. The first season of "Escape" was broadcast on Channel One in the autumn-winter of 2010. Thanks to the original idea, a complex plot and well-known actors, the audience took the TV show perfectly. The only thing that disappointed them was the ending of the season (because many did not know that they would shoot the sequel). Other Russian films about prison hardly can boast of such successes. In 2012, the second season of the series was shown, at the moment the third one is being filmed. Many viewers look forward to the continuation.