Season 1 • Episode 6
LatestA miniseries about the Cheka's destruction of an underground organization led by Boris Savinkov.
Acting
Kozakov's Dzerzhinsky is terrifyingly calm, like a priest of violence.
Production
Moscow standing in for 1920s Petrograd with grim authenticity.
Mikhail Kozakov
Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский
Andrey Martynov
Андрей Павлович Фёдоров
Antanas Barčas
Вячеслав Рудольфович Менжинский
Boris Sokolov
Артур Христианович Артузов
Valeri Ryzhakov
Сергей Васильевич Пузицкий
Girts Jakovlevs
Роман Александрович Пиляр
Yevgeni Lebedev
Борис Викторович Савинков
Nikolay Olyalin
Сергей Эдуардович Павловский
Vladimir Andreyev
Леонид Данилович Шешеня
Juris Kaminskis
Александр Аркадьевич Деренталь
Natalya Fateyeva
Любовь Ефимовна Деренталь
Leonid Nevedomsky
Михаил Дмитриевич Зекунов
Yuri Volkov
Дмитрий Владимирович Философов
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mark Orlov specialized in state-commissioned historical dramas; this was his most commercially successful work in the USSR.
Boris Savinkov was a real SR terrorist who actually did battle with Dzerzhinsky—his 1924 death in a Cheka 'trust' operation remains murky, and this series hews close to the official Soviet version.
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