48 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestFebruary 1934. The passage of the Northern Sea Route in one navigation was an ambitious goal and was of great importance for the USSR. Many considered this venture to be a hopeless and risky venture. The young and daring polar explorers, led by Otto Schmidt, sincerely believed that they would be able to complete the task on the Chelyuskin steamer. But great ideas turned into a great tragedy — the ship was trapped by ice and sank. Now, in the harsh Arctic conditions, the Chelyuskinites have to fight for their lives every minute.
Production
Arctic authenticity that'll make you check your thermostat.
Acting
Kirill Käro carries Schmidt's collapsing certainty with devastating precision.
Kirill Käro
Отто Юльевич Шмидт
Gleb Kalyuzhny
Юрий Набатов
Stasya Miloslavskaya
Оля Сомова
Dmitriy Kulichkov
Владимир Воронин
Dmitry Chebotarev
Соколов
Aleksey Rozin
Горелов
Aleksandr Loye
Эрнст Кренкель
Valeriia Zoidova
Зинаида Шрадэр
Mikhail Vodzumi
Выквын
Sergey Godin
Николай Каманин
Elisabeth Damsker
Саша Горская
Vyacheslav Krikunov
Владимир Коленчук
Evgeniy Sannikov
Георгий Алексеевич Ушаков
Denis Paramonov
Петька-механик
Aslan Tsallati
Тевосов
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Chelyuskin survivors became instant Soviet celebrities; their rescuer pilots were the first Heroes of the Soviet Union.
The disaster was politically spun as heroic partial success — this series reportedly interrogates that propaganda machine more than previous adaptations dared.
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