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Dinosaur

2018 · 3 seasons

A quiet, wry character study of an old man who belongs to prison more than to the world outside.

Created by
Aleksandr Polozov, Andrey Zhitkov
Genres
Comedy, Mystery, Action & adventure
Starring
Andrey Smirnov, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Evgeniy Miller
Overview
The elderly criminal authority Semyon Timofeevich Babushkin, about whose thieving talent legends were made up at the time, has not left prison for the last 35 years, preferring it to freedom, where he has no friends or relatives left.

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Created by
Aleksandr Polozov, Andrey Zhitkov
Genres
Comedy, Mystery, Action & adventure
Starring
Andrey Smirnov, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Evgeniy Miller
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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • crime
    • isolation
    • aging
    • freedom
    • identity
    Places
    • prison
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • serialised
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action3
    Horror1
    Humour4
    Realism6
    Romance1
    Tension4
    Darkness5
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight5

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    Details

    Genres
    comedy, mystery, action & adventure
    Created by
    Aleksandr Polozov, Andrey Zhitkov
    Starring
    Andrey Smirnov, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Evgeniy Miller, Anna Vasilieva, Борис Комаров, Ilia Ilin, Ilya Lyubimov, Olga Tumaykina
    Music
    Aleksey Shelygin
    Length
    3 seasons, 30 episodes, 45 min each
    Network
    NTV
    Country
    Russia
    Languages
    Russian

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