What to do this weekend? We present to your attention a selection of new Russian TV series featuring the main stars of our cinema: Anna Chipovskaya, Anna Mikhalkova, Nikita Kologrivy, Pavel Priluchny, Timofey Tribuntsev and Yuri Kolokolnikov.
In this list you will find a wide variety of genres: from thrillers and detectives to dramas and animation.
Choose how the famous song by Mikhail Shufutinsky inspired the creation of the series, immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the 90s with the series about the classic group “Combination”, and also meet the heroes of your favorite fairy-tale cartoon series.
1. September 3rd (2024)
Genre: comedy, fantasy
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.4 (KinoPoisk)
Country: Russia
Director: Felix Gerchikov
Starring: Pavel Rassomakhin, Arina Postnikova, Maxim Lagashkin, Mikhail Shufutinsky.
About what: Vitya is preparing for his wedding with Masha, the love of his life, and the evening before the celebration he goes out with friends to drink. Waking up in the morning, Vitya discovers that he doesn’t remember anything about the previous night, and his fiancée leaves him and comes to him.
The desperate young man begs for his wedding day to be returned to him so he can fix everything. And, as if in answer to his prayer, the next morning he finds the same day on the calendar – September 3rd.
Where to watch: Kinopoisk
2. Three Bogatyrs. Not a Day Without a Feat (2024)
Genre: cartoon
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.7 (KinoPoisk)
Country: Russia
Director: Alexandra Shokha, Ekaterina Salabay
Voice actors: Oleg Kulikovich, Valery Solovyov, Dmitry Bykovsky-Romashov, Sergey Makovetsky, Dmitry Vysotsky
About what: The three heroes have a feat on schedule every day. In response to threats related to the assertion of the princely crown, to save friends from the magical world of dreams, so that Horse Julius and Alyosha clash in an epic battle of wits.
There are no small adventures, and even our rich ones have big ones.
Where to watch: Kinopoisk
3. The Mousetrap (2024)
Genre: detective
Audience Rating: Underrated
Country: Russia
Director: Kira Angelina
Starring: Daria Shcherbakova, Alexander Arsentyev, Alena Ivchenko, Artem Grigoriev, Evgeniya Yarushnikova
About what: There is an emergency at a commercial bank: the director is found dead in his own office. Investigative Committee investigator Irina Merkulova must unravel the old secret and find out which of the bank’s managers committed the murder and what caused it.
At the same time, her marriage is in jeopardy because she has once again chosen work over family. The patience and love of her handsome husband Herman is running out.
Where to watch: Okko
4. First Class (2024)
Genre: drama, melodrama, comedy
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.0 (KinoPoisk)
Country: Russia
Director: Svetlana Samoshina
Starring: Yulia Khlynina, Marina Vasilyeva, Anya Chipovskaya, Elena Lyadova, Artyom Bystrov, Nikita Efremov
About what: Three friends, three six-year-old children. And only one place in the best school in St. Petersburg.
Poor, but smart and arrogant divorcee Tanya, careerist and wife of a police major Anya and beautiful businessman’s wife Lena – for the sake of her beloved child, because of them, she risks getting rid of relationships, friendship and even her own dignity.
Where to watch: Kinopoisk
5. Track (2024)
Genre: drama, thriller
Audience Rating: Underrated
Country: Russia
Director: Dusan Gligorov
Starring: Karina Razumovskaya, Alexander Ilyin Jr., Anna Mikhalkova, Elizaveta Ishchenko, Semyon Serzin
About what: Svetlana went to look for her adopted daughter, who went looking for her parents and disappeared. At the same time, in this resort town, a thirteen-year-old girl shoots her sleeping family – mother, father and grandmother – and then tries to hang herself. A neighbor runs to the gunshots and pulls the girl out of the noose.
The head of police assigns the investigation of a high-profile case to investigator Elvira Baraeva.
Where to watch: Okko
6. Combination (2024)
Genre: music, biography, drama, comedy
Audience Rating: Underrated
Country: Russia
Director: Nikita Vlasov
Starring: Nikita Kologrivy, Elizaveta Bazykina, Anastasia Ukolova, Pavel Priluchny, Daniil Vorobyov
About what: 1987. After the birth of his daughter, former employee of the Saratov OBKhSS Alexander Shishinin decides to radically change his life and do what he has always been a warrior about – to produce a musical group.
He meets the talented composer Vitaly Okorokov. Together they literally on the street find the first vocalists: Tatyana Ivanova, Alena Apina and assemble the first female group in the USSR.
Where to watch: Wink
7. South (2024)
Genre: adventures
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.7 (KinoPoisk)
Country: Russia
Director: Ivan Sosnin
Starring: Yaroslav Mogilnikov, Nadezhda Markina, Timofey Tribuntsev, Yuri Kolokolnikov.
About what: Yug Kipen is a reserved, modest boy with a well-mannered grandmother. Yug’s mother died when he was three years old, and he never saw his father. Everything changes when, on his 14th birthday, Yug discovers money in his grandmother’s closet that his father used to send him. From that moment on, the story of Yug’s great journey in search of his father begins. Potential fathers are scattered across Russia. Yug has to cross the entire country to meet each one.
He will visit the most beautiful corners of our country, and of course, he will see the main attraction of Russia – people! To go through such a journey for a 14-year-old teenager is, in principle, a foundation, and for Yugi it is even more difficult, because he is the owner of a bunch of phobias, which help him overcome each time.
Where to watch: Okko
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