The Miracle Worker

A slow-burning Cold War-era drama of rivalry and psychic experiments, steeped in late-Soviet atmosphere and intellectual tension.

Created by

Dmitriy Konstantinov

Genres

Drama

Starring

Arseniy Gusev, Mikhail Gorskiy, Filipp Yankovsky

Overview

Even before perestroika, there was a special laboratory at the Institute of Information Technologies in the USSR, where people’s extrasensory abilities were studied, with the aim of explaining them from a scientific perspective. It was there that Nikolai Arbenin and Viktor Stavitsky first met. Their rivalry, which began as a struggle between two men for a woman’s heart, over the years grew into a real “battle of the psychics” — only it takes place not on television, but in real life. Late 1988 – early 1989: a time when psychics packed full halls; they performed live on radio and on central television channels. A time when the confrontation between Nikolai Arbenin and Viktor Stavitsky reaches its climax...

How it feels

Tense, dark, melancholic and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Obsession, race, power, 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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