Russian Drama Archives

A Gentle Creature

A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.

A Picture to Remember

Masha is in love with Igor, her college mate, and wants to marry him, but he does not seem in much of a hurry to lead the girl to the altar. In a moment of sudden desperation, Masha decides to try and spur on her dawdling fiancé by applying to the local registry office for a civil marriage with the first man she chances to meet. The thwarted Igor soon realises his mistake and tries to win Masha back, but it seems to be too late. In the meantime, Masha did not expect that her new relationship that began as a joke will soon develop into true love.

An Ordinary Woman – Season 1

Marina is an ordinary woman, living in Moscow. But behind the veneer of her perfect family life lurk many dark secrets. She owns a flower shop, but her income really comes from running a clandestine Whatsapp network of prostitutes. An Ordinary Woman is the riveting story of how Marina copes as her carefully constructed house of cards begins to collapse around her.

An Ordinary Woman – Season 2

Ancestral Land

An epic family saga set in the Russian Urals before, during and after the Second World War. The story is centered on the Morozov family – Aleksey, Stepan, Aliona and Varvara – two brothers and two sisters, with a multitude of complex relationships between them. Miraculously, they all survive the slaughter of World War II, but not without learning some important lessons on the way, including the meaning of true love, that overcomes all hurdles and heals all wounds, and how to cope with grief, leading them ultimately to a long dreamed-of happiness.

Anna Karenina: Vronsky’s Story (2017)

There is no single truth in love. Each treads their own path.Which should take precedence – passion or duty? How do we choose? And who gets to judge? These are the eternal questions, remorselessly thrust upon us by life. Anna Karenina made her choice, leaving her son Sergei to grow up struggling to understand why his mother took such a tragic and terrible path, and Count Vronsky haunted by the memory of the woman for whose death he still blames himself 30 years later. In 1904, in the aftermath of one of the battles of the Russian–Japanese war, Sergei Karenin and Alexey Vronsky find themselves thrown together in a remote Manchurian village, where fate offers them a chance to return to the events long past and, finally, to find the answers both have long been seeking.

Battalion (2015)

Russia, 1917, WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women’s Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917.

Better Than Us – Season 1

Moscow in a not so distant future where human beings share their daily lives with robots. Georgy, a forensic who has a robot assistant, suddenly finds himself caught up in the first murder committed by a new kind of experimental humanoid.

Better Than Us – Season 2

Bitva za Sevastopol

The breakout of the war shatters the world of a young student, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, forcing her to enlist in the army in 1941. The maiden turns out to be a natural-born sniper, her impressive skill and prowess make her stand out among men and women alike. Seeing Pavlichenko as a tangible threat, the German High Command gives orders to eliminate the girl whatever the cost. In the meanwhile, Lyudmila meets a man and falls in love. War fades into the background… Soon, however, another misfortune befalls Lyudmila leaving the man she loves on the brink of death and herself seriously wounded.

Ekaterina – Season 1

This major international production traces the sensational rise of Catherine the Great, renowned Empress of Eighteenth Century Russia. Ekaterina begins her journey as a young German princess selected to marry Peter the Third, heir to the Russian throne and grandson of Peter the Great. Her story shows that even in an age of imperial dynasties and arranged marriages, power is not given. It is taken.

Ekaterina – Season 2

Ekaterina – Season 3

The year is 1774. Russian lands suffer from drought, hunger threatens the nation. Russia finds itself in two conflicts: a war with the Ottoman Empire and a rebellion, led by a self-proclaimed descendant of the Romanovs. In Paris, a princess claims to be the granddaughter of Peter the Great, and threatens to take the Russian throne. As her power withers, can Ekaterina II defeat the pretenders?

Ex-Wife

A single mother quits her career as a professional singer to become a bounty hunter chasing down deadbeat dads.

Hunting the Gauleiter

Minsk, 1970. A formal meeting takes place to discuss awarding The Young Communist League of the Byelorussian SSR with the special Order. Maria Arkhipova, now an elderly woman, occupies an honorable seat on the panel, young and over-confident Galina Pomazan, whose heroic and impressive wartime record means she has the privilege of opening the meeting.

Moscow Noir – Season 1

In turn-of-the-21st-century Moscow, an innocent trade plunges Swedish investment banker, Tom Blixen, into a battle with millionaires, politicians, oligarchs and their private armies.

Sentence On An Ideal Pair

Natalya and Zhanna are sisters. Zhanna, the younger of the two, has been spoilt by two doting parents. Her older sister, Natalya, on the other hand, is a self-made person. While Natalya put her private life on hold to set up and develop her business, Zhanna married a very wealthy man and gave birth to a little boy. Everybody would seem to be happy, until things unexpectedly start to go terribly wrong.

Six Empty Seats – Season 1

A group of work colleagues miss their flight by accident and avoid a plane crash, which prompts each of them to consider the paths their lives have taken and their unrealised dreams.

Sofiya

In 15th Century Russia, the last Byzantium Princess, Sophia Palaiologina, moves from Rome to distant Moscow to marry Czar Ivan III. Destined to become the first influential female figure of the Russian Empire, Sophia overcomes court intrigue and betrayals, and helps Ivan consolidate the fragmented country, push Mongolian invaders out, and build the Kremlin, the most magnificent symbol of Russia.

Surgery: The Territory of Love

Alina Lukasheva is happy with her life. Or so it seems. She has a caring husband, Sergei, a young son Lyoshka, security, warmth and comfort at home. In addition she has a job that she adores, working with Sergei in the same surgery department at the local hospital. Both of them are totally committed to their work. But one day everything collapses. Eminent surgeon, Yegor Kotov, with whom Alina was passionately in love twelve years ago, is appointed head of the department.

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