A cop who thinks he's a wolf solving crimes in Siberia? Absolutely unhinged.
Season 1 • Episode 8
LatestKlim Roshchin is a policeman who started out as an ethologist before the police, studied the life of wolves, and lived in a pack. He uses his animal instinct to catch criminals. A unique policeman who does not use weapons. His arsenal includes deduction, intuition, provocative interrogations and knowledge of the habits of animals. And, of course, an increased sense of justice, because of which he will find all the bad ones, but also all the good ones, his own, will lose.
Acting
Lavronenko's physically committed, barely-human performance
Cinematography
Bleak Siberian landscapes that eat characters whole
Direction
Oganesyan's refusal to explain the protagonist's madness
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Konstantin Lavronenko spent months studying wolf documentaries and adopted a loping, shoulder-heavy gait that other actors found genuinely unsettling on set.
The series taps into Russian 'men's cinema' traditions—think Tarkovsky's loners merged with pulp detective fiction—but subverts the macho archetype by making the hero's masculinity literally feral and possibly insane.
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