What if the only thing colder than Russian winter was Nazi ambition?
This TV Mini-Series is directed by Sergey Ginzburg, known for "Once Upon a Time in Odessa". "Ubit Stalina" takes time in 1941, when Germans sent troops to invade Russia. Winter was very cold and soldiers couldn't stay on the front for a long time, so Germans decided to strike a crushing blow and cunning - to kill Ioseb Stalin. Leadership of the Reich created special group of officers from the team "Abwehr" "Brandenburg-800". This team helped Nazi agent to deeply embed in USSR army - Will generals of USSR army find out agent? Will they save Russia from invasion of Nazi?..
Production
1941 USSR recreated with impressively grim authenticity
Acting
Porechenkov's Hess drips calculated menace
Writing
Tight cat-and-mouse between Abwehr and Soviet counterintelligence
Director
Sergey Ginzburg
Alexandr Domogarov
Berezhnoy
Ekaterina Vilkova
Polina
Mikhail Porechenkov
Hess
Pavel Trubiner
Nowitsky
Adam Bulguchev
Beria
Vasiliy Mishchenko
Prokhorov
Azamat Nigmanov
Revishvili
Yaroslav Zhalnin
Sechin
Evgeniy Miller
Игорь Михайловский
Igor Khripunov
Dronov
Artem Fedotov
Moliboga
Igor Artashonov
Green
Dmitry Lavrov
Zavyalov
Dmitriy Kulichkov
Sapater
Roman Sinitsyn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brandenburg-800 was a real German special forces unit, though their actual WWII operations were primarily sabotage, not high-profile assassinations.
The series aired during a wave of Russian historical revisionism—glorifying Soviet intelligence while ignoring Stalin's own purges of the military.
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