House with Lilies

House with Lilies (Дом с ли́лиями) is a Russian-Ukrainian melodramatic TV series directed by Vladimir Krasnopolsky and Valery Uskov. The authors describe their series as a family saga. The premiere took place in Ukraine on TV channel Inter March 31, 2014. In Russia the premiere was held on Channel One.

Plot
After the end of World War II, war hero Mikhail Govorovov becomes a Regional Party Leader in the Communist Party and moves with his whole family to a country house. At first, Michail does not believe the legends of a curse on the house: neither its owners nor their children and grandchildren will be happy in love.

Cast

 * Sergey Makhovikov as Mikhail Ivanovich Govorov
 * Darya Moroz as Taisiya, Lilya's mother
 * Olesya Sudzilovskaya as Margarita, Govorov's wife
 * Nikolai Dobrynin as Dementy Kharitonovich Shulgin
 * Anna Gorshkova as Govorov's daughter
 * Denis Matrosov as Rodion Kamyshev, Lilya's husband
 * Alexey Fateev as Sergey Morozov
 * Yevgeny Knyazev as actor Arefiev
 * Elena Radevich as Lilya in 16–18 years
 * Mikhail Zhigalov as Egorych
 * Viktor Rakov as Miron Polischuk, MGB officer
 * Boris Khimichev as  Rostopchin
 * Sergey Batalov as Gavrila Petrovich
 * Oksana Shvets as Director of Orphanage
 * Georgy Drozd as Karp Semyonovich Luzhnikov

Awards and nominations

 * TeleTriumph (2015)
 * Best Writer (Writer's crew) of the TV movie/series: Maria Bek, Elena Boiko — won
 * APKIT Awards (2015)
 * Best Television Mini-Series (5–24 episodes) — nom

History of creation
Principal photography took place in Kiev in the summer and autumn of 2013. Some scenes were filmed in London.

Director Vladimir Krasnopolsky about the series: "The action of the film covers almost 60 years. The events unfold in the difficult post-war period. According to the plot, it turned out not to be a love triangle, but a real square. The main character returns from the war to his wife and children, and at this time there is his illegitimate child from a front-line girlfriend, and the woman herself appears in their house as a housewife. The atmosphere is heated to the limit. The actors have a place to turn around."