Season 2 • Episode 12
LatestMarch 1944. At the front, the Red Army is conducting a confident offensive. The Allies are about to open a second front, and it seems that the final defeat of Nazi Germany is very close. However, the joy of the coming victory is overshadowed by a series of daring and brutal murders. No one has ever managed to see the bandits up close. According to the scant testimony of random eyewitnesses, the composition of the attackers is constantly changing. And every time they leave portraits of the dead at the crime scene. For these drawings and cruelty, the gang was nicknamed "Death's Head", and its leader was called an Artist.
Production
Period detail so authentic you can smell the ration cards.
Acting
Gorbatov's Sazonov: exhausted, brilliant, barely holding together.
Writing
Moral rot disguised as wartime necessity. No heroes here.
Aleksandr Gorbatov
Капитан Сазонов
Marina Aleksandrova
Люся
Andrey Merzlikin
Ливер
Victor Dobronravov
Михаил Рудаков
Kirill Zaytsev
Лёша Костенко
Sergey Gazarov
Пульнер
Ramil Sabitov
Барон
Konstantin Lavronenko
Батя
Sonia Priss
Варя
Oleg Fomin
Меркулов
Oleg Almazov
Антонов
Vadim Medvedev
Берия
Fyodor Lavrov
Хабар
Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov
Мирон
Alexey Vakulov
Буза
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series deliberately echoes the real 1944 'Night Witches' and Soviet war crimes cover-ups, using genre fiction to excavate buried national trauma.
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