TV series

Rooks

2026 · 1 season

A grim, slow-burning manhunt through a ruined city, where every clue cuts deeper into old wounds.

Overview: The year is 1947. Police captain Alexander Ratnikov is investigating a series of murders in Leningrad. The trail leads to Pavel Vedernikov, a technologist at a local fish farm. It turns out that in fact, technologist Vedernikov is a former deputy head of the Nazi concentration camp for children "Grachi" named Gunther Seiler. Skillfully posing as a Soviet citizen, Zeiler hunts for his family's art collection, which disappeared during the war. The criminal is ready to walk over corpses, just to get what he wants and go beyond the cordon. Ratnikov intends to catch Seiler at any cost: this Nazi is the only clue in the story of the captain's daughter, who disappeared during the war.
How it feels: Dark, bleak, tense and eerie. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: War, justice, revenge, identity
Content: Strong violence and gore. Mild sexual content and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 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
justice
revenge
identity
grief
Places: big city
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild