50 minSeason 1 • Episode 10
LatestUSSR, Odesa, 1980s... Young Kostik wants to escape USSR so he tries to get money for that in a very adventurous way...
Acting
Anton Feoktistov's Kostik—hopeful, desperate, utterly watchable.
Production
Odesa as character: crumbling beauty, black market energy, impossible dreams.
Anton Feoktistov
Костя Волошин
Olga Lerman
Майя (внучка Бориса Аркадьевича)
Sergey Sosnovsky
Борис Аркадьевич Замш (старый шулер)
Oleksiy Horbunov
Леонид Михайлович Балабан, Купец (дядя Кости)
Vladimir Karpov
Эдик Пинкин (друг Кости)
Aleksandr Robak
Сергей Николаевич Мамаев (полковник милиции)
Yuliya Galkina
Алла (певица)
Vadim Tsallati
Георгий Иванович (Гога)
Serhiy Frolov
Коваль (валютчик)
Ekaterina Volkova
Екатерина Андреевна (мать Костика)
Natalya Kovalyova
Валентина Ивановна
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in post-Maidan Ukraine, the series reimagines Soviet collapse with eerie contemporary resonance—Odesa's Jewish criminal underworld becomes metaphor for endless cycles of escape and entrapment.
Creator Eduard Parri based Boris Arkadyevich on real Odessan 'thieves-in-law,' but the show's real subject is Soviet mythology itself—the lie that somewhere, someone was living the life you deserved.
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