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Trigger

2020 · 4 seasons

A tense, emotionally charged procedural where each session crackles with confrontation, and a haunted man fights to redeem himself.

Created by
Dmitry Tyurin
Genres
Drama
Starring
Maksim Matveev, Elena Tronina, Igor Kostolevskiy
Tagline
How far can you go?
Overview
Artem is 35 years old. He’s a psychologist, he uses this provocative methodology successfully until one of his clients commits suicide. The one who Artem tried to heal from a suicidal mood by taking him to the roof and telling him that suicide was the right course of action. Artem is condemned to 8 years of colony, the psycholo- gist’s license is taken away, his wife Dasha (32) leaves him, his friends turn their backs on him. With the help of his best friend, Artem gets out of jail. All he is looking for is justice. He believes in his method and wants to prove that it’s actually working and the blame of the patient’s death is not on him. Each episode is a sep- arate case, Artem is brilliantly solving other people seemingly im- possible problems. But will he be able to save himself?

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Created by
Dmitry Tyurin
Genres
Drama
Starring
Maksim Matveev, Elena Tronina, Igor Kostolevskiy
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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • guilt
  • redemption
  • obsession
  • justice
  • isolation
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • procedural
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language strong
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour2
Realism8
Romance3
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Dmitry Tyurin
Written by
Andrey Zolotarev, Lev Murzenko
Starring
Maksim Matveev, Elena Tronina, Igor Kostolevskiy, Svetlana Ivanova, Viktoriya Maslova, Roman Mayakin, Vladislav Tiron, Danila Dunaev
Music
Ryan Otter
Cinematography
Nikolay Bogachev
Length
4 seasons, 40 episodes
Network
Channel One, Kinopoisk
Country
Russia

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