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Шеф

2012 · 7 seasons

A steady, grounded police drama about a transplanted family finding their footing amid everyday crime and quiet institutional pressure.

Created by
Oleg Larin
Genres
Crime
Starring
Andrey Chubchenko, Kirill Poluhin, Sergey Mardar
Overview
Viktor Rastorguev, a police colonel, moved to St. Petersburg with his entire family. In Moscow, he crossed paths with a certain official and was forced to leave. He would no longer have been allowed to serve peacefully in Moscow. In St. Petersburg, Rastorguev became the head of the district police department in one of the city's districts. Rastorguev's family moved with him: his wife Olga and 16-year-old son Pavel. They are trying to settle into their new home, but everything in their lives is not turning out the way they would like...

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Created by
Oleg Larin
Genres
Crime
Starring
Andrey Chubchenko, Kirill Poluhin, Sergey Mardar
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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • crime
    • family
    • corruption
    • justice
    • power
    Places
    • big city
    • workplace
    • home
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • procedural
    • serialised
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
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    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action3
    Horror1
    Humour2
    Realism7
    Romance2
    Tension4
    Darkness5
    Complexity3
    Emotional weight4

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    Genres
    crime
    Created by
    Oleg Larin
    Starring
    Andrey Chubchenko, Kirill Poluhin, Sergey Mardar, Igor Botvin, Eldar Lebedev, Denis Sinyavskiy, Yan Tsapnik, Vladimir Litvinov
    Length
    7 seasons, 178 episodes, 45 min each
    Network
    NTV , Premier
    Country
    Russia
    Languages
    Russian

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