In the golden age of television and among domestic serials, there are many interesting novelties. We offer you a list of the best action-packed TV series in Russia for 2019. Among them are the scandalous project of Konstantin Bogomolov, the film adaptation of the current bestseller by Yana Wagner and the mystical Russian noir.
Epidemic
- 1 season
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.1; IMDb - 7.2
- drama, fantasy, thriller
A deadly virus is spreading throughout Russia. Sergei is trying to take his family outside the quarantine zone, which Moscow has become, and his family is difficult: an ex-wife with a son, a new girlfriend with a son, and an elderly father. They find shelter in Karelia in the hold of an abandoned ship.
People in masks, people with coughs, the military, the police, panic ... Who can say now that science fiction writers cannot predict the future? The Russian TV series based on the fashionable novel by Yana Wagner "Vongozero" got to the point so that it recently earned a place in the rating of the most prestigious international projects Fresh TV Fiction. Fingers crossed to make it just scary fantasy again.
Kept women
- 2 seasons
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 6.5; IMDb - 6.3
- drama, thriller
An artist with glasses from the provinces arrives in the capital, takes off her glasses and, at the suggestion of an already attached friend, begins to sell herself. A cool police officer (Daria Moroz) is investigating a murder in secular circles. Everyone wears brands and diamonds, sleeps with everyone and betrays everyone. This is Moscow, baby.
In any case, this is Moscow through the eyes of theater director Konstantin Bogomolov, who loves to shred the classics into a postmodern salad. His Moscow is rich, beautiful and cold, like the platinum "hedgehog" of the actress Moroz. The series is called by many a satire on the glamorous life, but for satire you still need to admire all this alluring glossy lack of spirituality a little less.
Cipher
- 1 season
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.1
- detective
In the 1950s, four experienced cryptographers with the analytical skills of Sherlock Holmes served in their native GRU, brilliantly exposing the enemies of the Soviet regime.
In order to glorify the feat of the Soviet intelligence officer, the creators of "Cipher" resort to adapting the British TV series "Murder Code". As Nikita Mikhalkov says in such cases: "It's ironic." But let's give the authors their due: Russian women are as strong as British women, Soviet retro chic pleases the eye and almost makes you believe in yourself, and the red lipstick on Ekaterina Vilkova looks like her own.
Cold shores
- 1 season
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 6.8
- Russia
- thriller, detective
The novice investigator Alina is looking for a young woman, Maria, who has disappeared in the city where a maniac is at work. He does not find a woman, but falls in love with her husband. Four years later, twice, the husband meets a woman, like two drops of water similar to Maria, and leaves Alina for her sake. And the maniac returns.
The unhurried detective story, filmed in a cold Scandinavian palette, unfolds in the conditions of the Russian winter, which lasts all nine months. European standards are not always met: rapid is abused, music interrupts artists, faces are too tense. But there is a strong acting work, the wonderful Galina Polskikh, a shocking denouement, and Ekaterina Vilkova also suits warm things.
A. L. Zh. I. R
- 1 season
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.0
- history, drama
Eight thousand women were imprisoned in the "Akmola camp for wives of traitors to the motherland". In the camp, the fate of the wife of an arrested aircraft designer and an opera singer exiled on a denunciation intersect.
The illustrations for the most terrible pages of history can be easily removed as an incessant hysteria, but the creators of the series manage to avoid this by focusing on the eternal theme: who is able to remain a man in hell, and who becomes a devil. Not only one star Ekaterina Guseva, but also playing secondary roles with dignity. Yes, here, perhaps, there are no second plans, the history of each of these women is a tragedy of the whole society.
Force Majeure
- 1 season
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 6.8
- comedy, crime
The foolish nurse from the plastic surgery clinic, in which the local mafiosi change their appearance, after his death begins to impersonate this "godfather." Ahead is a new life, in which there is a place for all stereotypes, even a golden toilet bowl.
Say: "Guy Ritchie in Russian" and, in principle, you will not be mistaken. A playful crime comedy (with an emphasis on the word "comedy") tries to take the bar of "Lock, Stock, Two Barrels" and "Big Jackpot", and at times it does! Not so much jokes as gags and the charm of Pavel Priluchny. It is recommended to watch for a good mood.
Stepfather
- 1 season
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.1
- drama, history
The beautiful Nastya is waiting for her husband from the war, although seven years have passed since its end. People are already twisting their fingers at their temples, a neighbor is persistently courting, and she still believes: he is alive. And her little son Mishka is waiting for his father. But then a positive person comes from the city from all sides, and for the first time the expectation is replaced by something else.
The detailed and atmospheric village saga is adorned with acting works, so to speak, old and small: the artists of the older generation, especially Vladimir Gostyukhin, and the children here are very pleasant to look at. Young Yura Stepanov, who played Mishka, is perhaps a future star: charm in him is combined with natural talent.
On the edge
- 1 season
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.2
- drama, melodrama
Lena, a student from a prosperous family, falls in love with a Muslim Ruslan and goes to his homeland. A new acquaintance invites the mercantile Katya to Istanbul. The militant's widow, Amina, is being hounded by fellow villagers, and she voluntarily decides to leave for Syria. It turns out that all three are in the same Caliphate, where suicide bombers are molded from them.
Why women go to terrorism is a rare topic for the screen. It was studied only by the great German woman Margarete von Trott in the context of feminism and female emancipation. The creators of the Russian TV series touch on female psychology modestly, rather, they raise an acute social issue, but at a good cinematic level.
Dead lake
- 1 season
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 6.5
- thriller, detective, crime
The daughter of an oligarch is killed in the Arctic. A gloomy Moscow detective is invited to investigate the crime. He arrives in a snow-covered white dumbness and ends up in another world: northern spirits, shamans, prophecies and terrible dreams.
The list of the best action-packed TV series in Russia in 2019 ends with noir, fierce like Siberian frosts. The ears of "Twin Peaks" are clearly visible in it. The snows are like fjords, Evgeny Tsyganov is like Stellan Skarsgård in the gloomy Norwegian "Insomnia". And yet this is our noir, Russian, and the severity is native, with huts, and the frost rings somehow in a polar way, under the jew's harp.
