51 minSeason 2 • Episode 10
Latest1984, a small town near Vitebsk. Criminals who have robbed a local store are hiding from the scene in a truck. A traffic police car is chasing them. Soon the company car disappears. The search for the criminals and the traffic police officer begins, but instead of them, the corpse of a girl is found in the forest. The case is entrusted to local police officer Mikhail Shakhnovich, and a specialist from Minsk, Leonid Ipatiev, is sent to help him. He quickly realizes that Vitebsk colleagues are not particularly zealous in their work: the system is based on bribes and fabricated cases. And while Shakhnovich arrests the first ones who come across, the bodies of women continue to be found in the region.
Acting
Marin's simmering frustration against institutional incompetence
Production
Authentic 1984 Belarus that reeks of Soviet decay
Writing
True crime procedural that indicts the entire apparatus
Creator
David Tkebuchava
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the real Vitebsk serial killer case from 1984-1985, deliberately buried by Soviet authorities until 1991.
Director Tkebuchava shot in actual 1980s locations; the color grading removes blue entirely to simulate Soviet film stock deterioration.
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