The mattepainting for TV-series "Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik" by Star Media.
This image is the view of old Russian seaside town Odessa in the beginning of XX century.
The story is about Mishka Yaponchik - an Ukrainian gangster, Jewish, lived in Odessa at the beginning of the XX century, the military leader of two thousand of gangsters and the prototype of Benia Krik in The "Odessa Tales" by Soviet Jewish writer Isaak Babel. Born Moisei Vinnitsky, Yaponchik ("the Japanese") was an exceptional and eccentric character. Hailed as the next Robin Hood, he established his own code of conduct forbidding the robbing of the poor and professional classes.
