If you have already watched all the interesting new films, then this weekend I suggest you plunge into the world of TV series; fortunately, several exciting Russian projects have recently appeared on the Internet.
Domestic detective stories, science fiction and comedies await you. Excellent actors, a twisting plot – what else is needed for a cozy evening in front of the TV? Be interested and enjoy:
1. GDR
Genre: detective, drama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.4 (KinoPoisk)
Director: Sergey Popov
Starring: Alexander Gorbatov, Alexander Golubev, Evgeny Kharitonov, Daria Ursulyak, Tatyana Lyutaeva
About what: confrontation between spies from different countries during the Soviet era.
In the fall of 1989 in the USSR, Captain Nechaev is forced to return to duty after a failed special operation. In Moscow, colleagues ask Nechaev to monitor Berlin music hall artists who are capable of transmitting encrypted information to a historical journalist.
This simple task sets in motion a larger story that begins in Berlin, where intelligence agencies from around the world clash with each other in pursuit of valuable information.
Watch the series in Wink
2. Prestige
Genre: detective, drama, comedy
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.1 (KinoPoisk)
Director: Sergey Sentsov
Cast: Irina Rozanova, Yulia Snigir, Vera Kincheva, Lyubov Tolkalina, Anna Ukolova
About what: A murder is being investigated in an elite cottage community.
Officials, top managers, opera divas with their families and servants live in the “Prestige” village. The habitual existence of this elite community led to the murder of the Filimonov family. This causes neighbors to look at each other with suspicion and question whether we are so superior to whom they trust with what is most precious to them—their children.
During the investigation, which is begun by the “queen of the local police” Elizaveta Egorovna, it becomes clear that absolutely every inhabitant of “Prestige” has your secrets and motives for murder.
Watch the series in Okko
3. Smarter than me
Genre: fantasy, comedy
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.1 (KinoPoisk)
Director: Konstantin Kolesov
Starring: Kirill Kovbas, Angelina Pakhomova, Anatoly Kot, Yulia Yablonskaya, Maria Smolnikova
About what: The man and the best assistant in the smartphone change places.
The oligarch’s son Vasily is confident that in any difficult situation his father’s money and his faithful assistant in an expensive smartphone will save him. But one day dad gets tired of being a clueless rake, a stupid accident leads to the incredible: Vasya’s consciousness moves into the phone, the voice assistant into his body.
And today Vasya urgently needs to get a job, make peace with his beloved girlfriend Katya and improve relations with his father. All these tests with consequences take place together: Vasya inside the phone case, and the application in such an inconvenient and ridiculous human body.
Watch the series in Okko
4. Artist with big roads
Genre: comedy
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.0 (KinoPoisk)
Director: Dmitry Gribanov
Cast: Yuri Stoyanov, Philip Bledny, Yuri Itskov, Anna Glaubbe, Vladislav Vorobey, Anton Shavrin
About what: The thief transforms into an old nanny to get to the hiding place with certainty.
A repeat offender nicknamed “The Artist” is released from prison after his third term. He decided to establish a connection with his criminal past, but to do this he needs to get to the loot, which he hid in a cache in his house.
By this time, the Daughter-in-law and grandchildren of the Artists live there, and in order to pick up his thieves’ trophies, he will have to remember his theatrical past and get a job as a nanny for his own grandchildren.
Watch the series in Start
5. Black sun
Genre: detective, drama
Audience rating: ⭐️ – (KinoPoisk)
Director: Anna Nosatova
Cast: Yuri Chursin, Maxim Stoyanov, Victoria Korlyakova, Petr Kislov, Grigory Zeltser, Petar Zekavica
About what: Two investigators team up in an attempt to catch a dangerous maniac in the forest near Vyborg.
Detective officer Captain Evgeniy Chagin arrived in the forest near Vyborg, where, according to a statement from Moldovan Gabi, her sister came to the police and said she had gone missing. At the scene, search engine Chagin discovers the remains of a fire, and the next day he discovers that Gabi has also disappeared. At the same time, a new investigator, Igor Zhuk, appeared in the city, he arrived at the scene of the murder – Chagin’s classmate killed several bandits. Chagin tried to help his classmate cover up the evidence.
A conflict arises between Zhuk and Chagin, which results in Chagin leaving the police. Soon, in the same forest, near the place, Chagin and Gabi went where they found a corpse without a head and hands. Zhuk and Chagin had to learn to catch the killer. They are learning that police previously found the same body but did not link the cases to each other. Obviously, catching the killer is not so easy, and it seems he is not alone.
Watch the series in Kion
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Source: Iphones RU
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