8.051 minSeason 1 • Episode 7
LatestUSSR, 1980s. The Elista Children's Hospital is experiencing the country's first major HIV outbreak, with more than 70 children and several adults infected. Now everyone: doctors, patients, relatives need to preserve human dignity in the face of a terrible disease for which there is no cure yet.
Acting
Ilyasov's haunted eyes carry entire episodes.
Production
Soviet bleakness so authentic you can taste the borscht.
Writing
Refuses easy heroes in a system with no good choices.
Creator
Maxim Ivanov
Askar Ilyasov
Kirsan
Nikita Efremov
Dmitriy
Elizaveta Shakira
Alena
Evgeniya Mandzhieva
Gilyana
Evgeniy Stychkin
Igor
Pavel Maykov
Petr
Igor Gordin
Vladimir
Victoria Agalakova
Zina
Seydulla Moldakhanov
Marat
Ivan Dobronravov
Ivan
Igor Bochkin
Chazov
Yevgeni Syty
Georgiy Ushakov
Nikolay Shrayber
Klim Perfilov
Vladimir Steklov
Pavel Yevgenyevich
Aleksey Maklakov
Kryuchkov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Elista outbreak was real and suppressed until 1988; this series breaks 35 years of official silence.
Director Ivanov cast actual Kalmyk actors from Elista — many had family who remembered the quarantine.
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