What if Noah's Ark was a Soviet training vessel full of horny cadets and one stressed captain?
Season 2 • Episode 26
LatestCaptain Viktor Gromov takes 20 cadets on board a ship for training. However, a global catastrophe drowns all the continents and the ship is the only place where the sailors can survive.
Production
Surprisingly ambitious water effects for 2014 Russian TV
Acting
Pevtsov's exhausted captain energy carries entire seasons
Creators
Oleg Asadulin, Mark Gorobets
Dmitriy Pevtsov
Viktor Gromov
Ilya Lyubimov
German Vorojtsov
Irina Antonenko
Alyena Gromova
Yuliya Agafonova
Kseniya Danilova
Agrippina Steklova
Nadejda Solomatina
Ingrid Olerinskaya
Irina Zyablikova
Matvey Zubalevich
Roman Polomarchuk
Sergey Druzyak
Petr Zatsepa
Vladimir Vinogradov
Yuriy Rakita
Roman Kurtsyn
Max Grigoriev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea — the isolated ship metaphor hit different domestically. State-funded but weirdly subversive.
The ship was a real decommissioned vessel; actors lived aboard for weeks. Method acting or budget necessity? Both.
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