7.554 minSeason 1 • Episode 14
Latest1989-1990. General Secretary of the CPSU Mikhail Gorbachyov begins global transformations in the USSR. He passionately wants to become a star in world politics and for this he is ready to go as far as he can to meet the West. But the perestroika planned by Gorbachyov leads to fatal, irreversible consequences. Intelligence officer Alexander Nechaev finds himself at the center of an operation organized by the intelligence services of several countries. During the months spent in Berlin at the moment of the breakdown of the entire post-war world order, Nechaev changed a lot. He no longer knows who is a friend and who is a traitor, but continues to defend the honor and interests of his Motherland...
Production
Painstaking 1989 Berlin period detail
Acting
Gorbatov's exhausted true-believer unraveling
Writing
Intelligence jargon that actually sounds researched
Aleksandr Gorbatov
Александр Нечаев
Darya Ursulyak
Светлана Нечаева
Linda Lapinsh
Ингрид
Vitaliy Kovalenko
Михаил Сергеевич Горбачёв
Madlen Dzhabrailova
Раиса Максимовна Горбачёва
Sergey Zharkov
Константинов
Aleksandr Golubev
Юрий Жданов
Evgeny Kharitonov
Михаэль Фосс
Aleksandr Oblasov
Василий Чигирь
Gennadii Blinov
Виктор Лукьянов
Kirill Zaytsev
Джек Эванс
Yuliya Marchenko
Хельга
Evgeny Koryakovsky
Эд Печиус
Evgeniy Sannikov
Руди
Arseniy Kudryasov
Отто
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vitaliy Kovalenko studied hours of archival Gorbachev footage to nail that distinctive Stavropol accent and hand gesture combo.
This is part of a wave of Russian prestige dramas re-examining the late Soviet period with uncomfortable nostalgia—state-funded but weirdly critical.
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