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Petlya Nesterova

2015 · 1 season

A slow-burning Soviet-era crime drama that tightens like a wire as ordinary lives get caught between rival security services.

Genres
Action & adventure, Crime
Starring
Kirill Zaporozhskiy, Oksana Akinshina, Karina Razumovskaya
Overview
In the early 1980s, the struggle for power intensified among the party elite of the USSR. Leonid Brezhnev's illness and total corruption have forced the security forces to choose what the future of the country will be. Ordinary people find themselves drawn into a merciless conflict between two departments, the KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, for power. One evening, a troubled teenager comes to the local police officer, senior police lieutenant Kirill Nesterov, with a suspicious package containing rare canvases by Russian artists. Kirill had no idea that this episode would become only the first step in a series of further events that would threaten not only his views on life, but also life itself!

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Genres
Action & adventure, Crime
Starring
Kirill Zaporozhskiy, Oksana Akinshina, Karina Razumovskaya
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How it feels

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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
    • corruption
    • power
    • crime
    • betrayal
    • conspiracy
    Places
    • big city
    Era
    period
    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
    Action4
    Horror1
    Humour2
    Realism7
    Romance2
    Tension6
    Darkness6
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight5

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    Details

    Genres
    action & adventure, crime
    Starring
    Kirill Zaporozhskiy, Oksana Akinshina, Karina Razumovskaya, Dmitriy Shevchenko, Sergey Gorobchenko, Sergey Burunov, Sergey Barkovsky, Vasiliy Bochkaryov
    Length
    1 seasons, 8 episodes
    Country
    Russia
    Languages
    Russian

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