A broken fighter returns home to bury his mother—and maybe himself.
Season 2 • Episode 10
LatestFormer boxer Egor Tarantsev arrives in his native seaside town for his mother's funeral. Twenty years ago, he left for competitions and never returned to these parts. His career took off, he turned professional from amateurs, fought for the championship title in Las Vegas, everything was going well in the ring, until one day the doctors gave Egor a verdict - if he did not stop, the consequences could be irreparable, from stroke to death.
Acting
Denis Nikiforov's physicality speaks louder than dialogue.
Cinematography
Bleached seaside decay—every frame feels like a bruise.
Denis Nikiforov
Егор Таранцев
Irina Tarannik
Марина
Darya Yurgens
Зоя
Vasily Kopeikin
Илья
Aleksey Komashko
Дроздов
Egor Sazykin
Андрей
Maya Voznesenskaya
Елена Шадрина
Evgeniy Slavskiy
Валера
Evgeny Zhenikhov
Аким (Игорь Михайлович)
Valentin Smirnov
Пряжников
Даниил Подгорный
Николай
Игорь Лебедев
Самойленко
Viktor Tsygankov
Анастасия Чемоданова
Лиза
Виталий Стеблецов
Соболев
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Russian sports dramas often use physical collapse as metaphor for post-Soviet national identity—Egor's failed Vegas dream mirrors a generation's.
Denis Nikiforov reportedly trained with actual retired boxers for six months; his ring scar makeup took three hours daily.
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