Children of Arbat

A slow, oppressive plunge into Stalin-era fear, where ordinary loyalty curdles into dread and every quiet conversation carries the weight of possible betrayal.

Created by

Valentin Chernykh, Yuliya Damsker

Genres

Drama

Starring

Evgeny Tsyganov, Daniil Strakhov, Yevgeniya Simonova

Overview

Set in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, it tells the story of Sasha Pankratov, a student and loyal Komsomol member from the Arbat neighborhood of Moscow who is unfairly exiled to Siberia. As his family and friends, including his love interest Varya Ivanova, grapple with Sasha's sudden detention and departure, the series shows the growing fear and paranoia that gripped Moscow in the years before the murder of Sergey Kirov and the start of Stalin's Great Purge.

How it feels

Bleak, tense, melancholic and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Politics, isolation, fate, betrayal

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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