Anton Lapenko

Anton Vyacheslavovich Lapenko born on September 1 1986 in Zelenograd Moscow USSR is a Russian film and theater actor In 2019 Lapenko became famed as an author of humorous Instagram sketches styled as retro VHS videos Characters played by Lapenko include a selfdoubting engineer a journalist producing the TV show The Mystery of the Hole and an eccentric steamroller driver Igor Katamaranov By January 2020 Lapenkos channel had 1500000 subscribers In December 2019 Lapenko published the movie series Within Lapenko on YouTube The series were created by him he also played all of the characters alongside comedian Aleksei Smirnov the screenwriter and film director The plot is based on the life and adventures of characters from Lapenkos Instagram videos According to the authors presentation of the series it is styled like late Soviet movies and isnt set in a particular time but rather features a universe which combines the 1980s and 1990s Egor Maksimov from Maxim Online referred to the series as a parody of all genres of Soviet TV Lapenko is compared to Leonid Gaidai and to Monty Python not in the least due to his absurdist humour