49 minSeason 2 • Episode 12
LatestYaroslavl, 1974. Two high-profile and violent crimes are taking place in the city. The investigation is being handled by the uncompromising investigator for particularly important cases of the prosecutor's office, Egor Tabolin. The threads of these crimes lead to one person — the head physician of the psychiatric hospital, Mikhail Nagornykh, and his deputy Vaganov, in whose hospital several mysterious deaths have occurred in recent years.
Production
Painstaking 1974 Yaroslavl recreation — the beige is oppressive
Acting
Bukharov's Tabolin: exhaustion as moral armor
Writing
Case-of-the-week that slowly poisons into systemic horror
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rogozhkin spent three years in Yaroslavl archives; the psychiatric hospital's real 1970s 'special section' for political dissidents was only declassified in 2016.
Episode 7's single-take corridor walk took 23 attempts — the visible sweat on Bukharov's neck is real, not makeup.
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