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On the Trail of the Beast

2025 · 1 season

A tense, brooding wartime cat-and-mouse game where trust is scarce and every move feels weighted.

Created by
Pyotr Amelin
Genres
War & politics, Drama, Mystery
Starring
Pavel Harlanchuk, Mikhail Gavrilov, Anton Batyrev
Overview
The Great Patriotic War. Soviet intelligence officers led by Sergei Skorin and Andrei Losev are trying to track down a well-trained sabotage group that is staging large-scale sabotage in the rear of the Red Army on the eve of the Battle of Kursk. Andrey and Sergey are brothers, but there has been a conflict between them for many years. Andrey does not trust Sergei, because he suspects that his brother has been turned upside down.

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Created by
Pyotr Amelin
Genres
War & politics, Drama, Mystery
Starring
Pavel Harlanchuk, Mikhail Gavrilov, Anton Batyrev
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How it feels

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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • war
  • betrayal
  • conspiracy
  • family
  • loyalty
Places
  • military
  • countryside
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action6
Horror2
Humour1
Realism7
Romance1
Tension8
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
war & politics, drama, mystery
Created by
Pyotr Amelin
Written by
Yuriy Grechany, Igor Ter-Karapetov, Igor Torotko
Starring
Pavel Harlanchuk, Mikhail Gavrilov, Anton Batyrev, Sergey Komarov, Nikita Kasyanenko, Ivan Batarev, Evgenia Malakhova, Евгения Лыкова
Length
1 seasons, 12 episodes
Network
REN TV, Wink
Country
Russia
Languages
Russian

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