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Ivan Babushkin

1986 · 1 season

A solemn, slow-paced historical drama that asks for patience and rewards it with a serious, earnest portrait of conviction under pressure.

Overview
The series is based on the novel by A. Borshchagovsky "Sechen". About the life and work of the professional revolutionary, Bolshevik Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • earneststrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • politics
  • rebellion
  • justice
  • betrayal
  • survival
Places
  • big city
  • countryside
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour1
Realism8
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Georgiy Kuznetsov
Written by
Aleksandr Borshchagovskiy
Starring
Aleksei Zharkov, Anna Kamenkova, Elena Melnikova, Ivan Krasko, Vatslav Dvorzhetsky, Andrey Sergeev, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Yuri Grebenshchikov
Length
1 seasons, 4 episodes
Network
Central Television USSR
Country
Soviet Union

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