Season 1 • Episode 8
LatestTaxi driver Larisa Aidarova from a small seaside town is preparing for the wedding with her beloved Maksim, with whom she has been working and living together for more than a year. But all plans collapse when Maksim is detained on suspicion of murder.
Acting
Khodchenkova's controlled devastation—she barely blinks, wrecked.
Cinematography
Bleak seaside greys that swallow characters whole.
Creators
Andrey Kurganov, Sergey Kaluzhanov, Mariya Izyumova
Svetlana Khodchenkova
Лариса Айдарова
Polina Gukhman
Катя
Anton Filipenko
Максим Чалкин
Yuriy Chursin
Андрей Орлов
Sabina Akhmedova
Евгения Градова
Andrey Burkovskiy
Влад Айдаров
Vitaliy Kovalenko
Олег
Anastasia Shevtsova
Вика
Maksim Stoyanov
Семёнов
Ilya Borisov
моряк
Varvara Vladimirova
Ольга
Urszula Malka
Светлана
Igor Chernevich
начальник
Nadezhda Tolubeeva
Синица
Yuliya Dzhulai
Маша
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of post-Soviet 'provincial noir' examining systemic collapse through intimate crime. The seaside setting mirrors economic decay.
Svetlana Khodchenkova deliberately underplayed Larisa's grief after consulting with real taxi drivers who described emotional shutdown as survival.
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