TV series

My Destiny

1974 · 1 season

A solemn, reflective Soviet-era drama that moves slowly between past and present, asking you to sit with a man weighing his life.

Overview: Mikhail Nikolaevich Ermakov has come a long and difficult life path. At the age of nineteen, the student, the son of a worker, was sent on a Komsomol ticket to work in the Cheka. In one of the operations he was seriously wounded. And now, many years later, General Ermakov comes to Moscow and settles in the house where he spent his youth...
How it feels: Earnest, melancholic and tense. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Memory, identity, justice, betrayal
Content: Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
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Tone: earneststrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 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: memory
identity
justice
betrayal
aging
Places: big city
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none