Age: 54
Vladimir Epifantsev (born September 8, 1971) is a versatile Russian theatre and cinema actor, filmmaker, and television presenter known for his physical screen presence and bold artistic choices. Born in Moscow into a family of artists, he graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute and later studied directing at GITIS, where he launched the experimental "Prok-Theater." He gained early notoriety for his role in the underground cult film The Green Elephant (1999) and has since become a prominent figure in mainstream Russian action and crime dramas, notably starring as Andrey Shamanov in the series Flint (Kremen) and its sequel. His extensive filmography includes diverse projects such as the satirical fantasy Generation P (2011), the historical epic Viking (2016), and the acclaimed drama Captain Volkonogov Escaped (2021).
The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as the Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s.[4] Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in east Thailand near the border of Cambodia (somewhere in the Amphoe Mueang Trat district, likely on the mainland north/northeast of the Ko Chang island or on the island itself).[5] The city is home to the Japanese Yakuza, the Chinese Triad, the Russian mafia, the Colombian cartel, the Italian mafia, a wide assortment of pickpockets, thugs, mercenaries, thieves, prostitutes, assassins, and gunmen. The city also has a large Vietnamese refugee population following the Vietnamese refugees exodus after the Communist takeover of Vietnam in 1975. Lagoon Company transports goods for various clients in the American made 80-foot (24 m) Elco-type PT boat Black Lagoon. It has a particularly friendly relationship with the Russian crime syndicate Hotel Moscow. The team takes on a variety of missions—which may involve violent firefights, hand-to-hand combat, and nautical battles—in various Southeast Asian locations, even going as far as Phu Quoc island of Vietnam. When they are not working, the members of the Lagoon Company spend much of their down time at The Yellow Flag, a bar in Roanapur which is often destroyed in firefights.
