Season 2 • Episode 8
LatestBudding metropolitan investigator Oleg Khlebnikov kills a criminal during detention. Oleg is sure that the villains should be punished not only by the court. The deceased turns out to be a media person, and in order to hush up the scandal, his death is called an accident, and Khlebnikov is sent to the taiga city to sit out the watch, and soon return to Moscow. It won't work on a quiet business trip.
Acting
Chinaryov's thousand-yard stare that never thaws
Cinematography
Siberia as a character: vast, indifferent, complicit
Writing
Moscow corruption meets taiga pragmatism, nobody wins
Pavel Chinaryov
Олег Хлебников
Marina Vorozhischeva
Анна Журавлева
Fyodor Lavrov
Александр Корнеев
Mikhail Evlanov
Чиграш
Oleg Vasilkov
Константин Пряхин
Aleksandr Golubkov
Павел Бутак
Ramil Sabitov
Ясанов
Konstantin Vorobyov
Ян Карлович
Yakov Shamshin
Роман Щерга
Bayastan Koldoshaly
Тыкулча
Elena Erbakova
Сонголик
Anton Momot
Астахов
Vadim Skvirskiy
Нартов
Vladimir Khrabrov
Тихий
Denis Moiseev
Демид
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Russian 'taiga noir' emerged post-2010s as filmmakers explored provincial corruption beyond Moscow's glittering surface. Deerslayer continues this tradition where geography itself becomes antagonist.
The title's hunting reference is layered: Oleg becomes both hunter and hunted, while the series itself tracks how institutional predators select prey in bureaucratic ecosystems.
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