Russian doctors and rich losers asking: what if happiness is just a lie we tell ourselves?
8.042 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestA talented doctor, a rich slacker, a good mother and other people whose life looks perfect only from the outside are in an eternal search for an answer to the question of what happiness is.
Acting
Khamatov's Arkasha is unbearably specific and real.
Writing
Dialogue that cuts deep with Russian specificity.
Direction
Dzhunkovskiy frames Moscow's hollow glamour perfectly.
Shamil Khamatov
Arkasha
Marina Vasilyeva
Shura
Aleksandr Pal
Yevgen
Mariya Shalaeva
Oksana
Mariya Fomina
Kristina
Yasmina Omerovich
Alyona
Fyodor Lavrov
Sergey Daev
Pavel Vorozhtsov
Dima
Maksim Lagashkin
Mer goroda 'xxx'
Aleksandr Kuznetsov
Psikhoterapevt
Svetlana Ivanova-Sergeeva
Mama Yevgena
Nikolay Shrayber
Batyushka
Olga Medynich
Zhena mera goroda 'xxx'
Alisa Grebenshchikova
Bomzhikha
Aleksandr Fisenko
Vasiliy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Russia's post-2010 'quality TV' wave, directly influenced by Fleabag's confessional style but with distinctly post-Soviet fatalism.
The hospital scenes were filmed in an actual working Moscow clinic; some background 'patients' are real unhoused people Dzhunkovskiy cast on location.
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