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The Black Sea

2020 · 2 seasons

A tense, earnest wartime procedural that keeps you on edge with underwater cat-and-mouse stakes and a grim sense of duty.

Created by
Sergei Scherbin
Genres
Action & adventure, War & politics
Starring
Pavel Trubiner, Ekaterina Vilkova, Yuriy Tsurilo
Overview
Year 1944. Shortly before the start of the Crimean Offensive, the ships of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet and the Azov Naval Flotilla are in serious danger: German underwater commandos are preparing a large-scale operation to destroy the main combat units of the Soviet fleet in ports and roads. Aware of the seriousness of the threat, the Soviet command is developing an operation to detect and destroy the main base of the German underwater saboteurs.

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Created by
Sergei Scherbin
Genres
Action & adventure, War & politics
Starring
Pavel Trubiner, Ekaterina Vilkova, Yuriy Tsurilo
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How it feels

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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • war
  • survival
  • power
  • loyalty
  • violence
Places
  • sea
  • military
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action7
Horror2
Humour1
Realism7
Romance1
Tension8
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
action & adventure, war & politics
Created by
Sergei Scherbin
Written by
Igor Torotko, Igor Ter-Karapetov
Starring
Pavel Trubiner, Ekaterina Vilkova, Yuriy Tsurilo, Evgeniy Miller, Anna Kotova, Aleksei Shevchenkov, Konstantin Adaev, Viktor Proskurin
Length
2 seasons, 16 episodes
Network
Russia-1
Languages
Russian

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