Season 1 • Episode 8
LatestAn epic saga which takes place over a long time span from 1961 to 1991. From the midpoint of the story we view the friendship of four boys. In season main heroes are in their 20's, they are childhood friends, and for the sake of their friendship they are ready to sacrifice anything. Everyone has their own dreams, but their circumstances will take them on a difficult path and they will be forced into all kinds of underground economic dealings in the early 60s. And, worst of all - they are successful in this business. And the more successful they are, the further they get from their real dreams.
Acting
Petrov's slow-burn despair as success destroys him.
Production
Painstaking Soviet-era detail that breathes authenticity.
Writing
Friendship so real it hurts when it cracks.
Creator
Aleksandr Kott
Alexander Petrov
Андрей Трофимов
Fillip Gorenshtein
Борис Целлер
Maksim Emelyanov
Санёк Демин
Zoya Berber
Надя (девушка Андрея)
Taisiya Vilkova
Зина (младшая сестра Бориса)
Evgeniy Stychkin
Максим Понтонов (("Понт") криминальный авторитет)
Aleksey Serebryakov
Георгий Михайлович Востриков (отец Нади, майор милиции)
Daniel Chernish
Хашим (иностранный дипломат)
Aleksandr Yatsenko
Сережа Задорожный (("Берём-и-едем") таксист)
Ekaterina Volkova
Валерия Дмитриевна Ланская (редактор журнала)
Elena Antipova
Ольга Федоровна (мать Андрея)
Oleksii Kyriushchenko
Валерий Павлович Германов (отец Кости, народный судья)
Timofey Tribuntsev
Борис Иванов (сотрудник госбезопасности)
Lyudmila Arinina
Руша Марковна (бабушка Бориса и Зины)
Aleksandr Lyapin
Петрухин (милиционер)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title 'Fartsa' refers to the Soviet black market slang for shady dealings — the show invented nothing, it just finally dramatized what history ignored.
Alexander Kott spent years securing permissions to film authentic Soviet locations; the KGB archives allegedly 'lost' some files he requested.
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