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Mr. Freeman
Mr. Freeman
Genre	web series, arthouse, philosophy
Directed by	Vladimir Ponomarev
Voices of	Vadim Demchog, Scott Greer
Composer	Alexey Prosvirnin
Country of origin	Russia
Original language	Russian
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	35 (list of episodes)
Production
Producer	Pavel Muntyan
Running time	≈ 3 min
Production company	Toonbox
Original release
Network	2×2
Release	June 15, 2010 (2010-06-15)

Mr. Freeman is a Russian animated web series named after its main character. The series appeared on YouTube on September 21, 2009 and got considerable popularity in Runet. The main content of the series is monologues which in a harsh manner criticize the lifestyle of modern everyman. As of July, 2019 there are 24 episodes published, with a total of 42 uploads to the channel. The total number of views is more than 76 million.

The earliest five episodes were dubbed by the Russian actor Vadim Demchog. On November 14, 2010 Demchog officially announced his immediate relation to the project. After that, the production of new episodes temporarily ceased, but on January 11, 2011 a new video was released. Since the episode "Me?" Vadim Demchog dubs the series again.

It is also known that an animator Pavel Muntyan worked on the first series.

General synopsis and subject

The animated series contains many symbols and hints. For example, Freeman may appear as a shape containing the stereotypical traits of some specific individuals or social groups (for example, while saying "I've placed everything under my will", Freeman is standing on a pedestal in a cap-cornered hat, holding his hand at the chest level). There are also hidden frames in the series, which contain elements of a larger image. In addition, there are details, insignificant at first glance, such as numbers 21.12.12 into which the ECG transforms in the first episode, which are the estimated date of completion of the current era according to the Maya calendar. These and many other details nourish many versions about the identity of Freeman and his goals.

List of episodes

Video questions

Other appearances

Awards

• On April 15, 2010 in Berlin at the international Weblog competition The Best of Blogs the blog "Mr. Freeman" was voted Best Videoblog.

See also

• Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

References

1. Mr. Freeman at 2x2tv.ru
2. Yuliya Eydel (January 5, 2010). "Умница Mr. Freeman" [Clever Mr. Freeman] (in Russian). Частный Корреспондент. Archived from the original on March 14, 2012. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
3. Semyon Kvasha (November 6, 2009). я не проповедник, я голос [i'm not a preacher, i am voice] (in Russian). F5. Archived from the original on June 6, 2019. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
4. "mrfreeman0 YouTube profile on Social Blade". Social Blade. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
5. Передача "Попутчики" / Воскресенье, 14.11.2010: Вадим Демчог (in Russian). Радиостанция «Эхо Москвы». November 14, 2010. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
6. Sergey Yefimov (November 16, 2010). Мистер Фримен: "Что ты сотворил, кроме г…на?!" [Mr. Freeman: "What have you created but shit?"] (in Russian). Комсомольская правда. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
7. Видеоролики MF Archived 2018-02-07 at the Wayback Machine on the official website
8. В число лучших блогов в мире вошли три русскоязычных дневника

External links

• Official website (in Russian)
• Official channel at YouTube
• Official LJ-page
• Official blog at Twitter (in Russian)
• Fun's page

• 2009 web series debuts
• 2010s animated television series
• Russian adult animated television series
• Russian animated web series
• Russian adult animated comedy television series