One of the first movie attempts by Mykola Yeriomin and Mikhail Bondarev, was filmed on cell phone camera and never edited. Footage was supposedly lost after a few screenings but there is a slight possibility that it can be found somewhere.
Filmmakers made a suggestion to destroy the footage because it looked realistic in its stunts, but unrealistic in decoration making it look slightly like a real video of a fight in a school. As major controversy occurred about one such video the same year, filmmakers were afraid that the short film can be confused with such.
First acting attempt (not quite a film debut, but can be count as such) by Mikhail Bondarev who wanted to secure his image in case of failure by using obvious pseudonym Arnold Van Damm (a tribute to action stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jean-Claude Van Damme) suggested by Mykola Yeriomin.
Directed as a serious (but tongue-in-cheek) prison film unintentionally film felt into comedy and that course was chosen by director to continue.