Two TV delights coming from Mother Russia for you this weekend, starting with
SHERLOCK THE RUSSIAN CHRONICLES (Шерлок в России)
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Sherlock in Russia streams from October 22nd
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which hits Russian streamer
Start.ru from October 22nd! The eight episode series will see
Maksim Matveyev playing famous detective Sherlock Holmes who is chasing a killer over in 1880's Saint Petersburgh. The high end series is directed by
Nurbek Egen.
SHERLOCK: THE RUSSIAN CHRONICLES sees Sherlock Holmes travelling to Russia alone, without his close friend Watson, in order to catch Jack the Ripper, whom Sherlock has been chasing from the U.K. Watson can’t travel with Holmes, since the good doctor was wounded by Jack the Ripper a few days prior to his escape. Sherlock writes to Doctor Watson from Russia
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The eight episode series was shot last year
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every day. In these letters he tells his friend about his experience in Russia and his impressions of the country. Things don’t go according to plan, of course… In Russia, he meets Doctor Kartsev (
Vladimir Mishukov), from whom he
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Maksim Matveyev takes the lead role of Sherlock in the new series
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rents a room. Dr. Kartsev starts helping him solve very strange, confusing, and complicated crimes, and Holmes is once again forced to convince law enforcement authorities of the correctness of his deductive methods of investigation.
Irina Starshenbaum plays Sofia who helps them in their work.
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Legend Ferrari aired in January in Russia
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Another Russian detective series that I have for you today already aired on their NTV earlier in January. 12 episode saga
FERRARI LEGEND (Легенда Феррари) has a plot which is pure fantasy, set in Crimea, summer 1920. After the unsuccessful attempt on the life of Baron Wrangel (
Alexandar Buharov) and the death of the agents of the intelligence department of the Red Army, the Bolsheviks need a new cunning plan to implement the "Crimean Mission". The best agent is appointed to this case - Elena Golubovskaya (
Olga Pogodina), who is fluent in five languages. In Crimea,
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Olga Pogodina plays the lead role in the series
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Golubovskaya appears already as El Ferrari - a gifted Italian poet, born in St. Petersburg. Her task is not only to physically eliminate Wrangel in order to demoralize the White Army, but also to lead the operation to steal the gold
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The series was shot in Krimean capitol Sevastopol
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treasury of the White Guards. All plans are unexpectedly hampered by the German Maximilian Ermler (
Pavel Delong), a journalist for one of the local newspapers, who turned out to be an agent of British intelligence.
