Children of the Arbat (TV series)

Children of the Arbat
DVD cover
Дети Арбата
Written byJulia Damsker
Valentin Chernykh
Directed byAndrei Eshpai
StarringChulpan Khamatova
Yevgeny Tsyganov
Irina Leonova
Daniil Strakhov
Inga Strelkova-Oboldina
Theme music composerAndrei Ledenyov
Country of originRussia
Original languageRussian
No. of episodes16
Production
ProducersKonstantin Ernst
Andrei Kamorin
Aleksandr Potemkin
CinematographyShandor Berkeshi
Running time765 min.
Original release
NetworkChannel One
Release30 August (2004-08-30) –
23 September 2004 (2004-09-23)

Children of the Arbat (Russian: Дети Арбата, romanized: Deti Arbata) is a 16-part television series based on the Children of the Arbat trilogy by Anatoly Rybakov. It aired on the Channel One network in Russia in 2004.[1]

The series closely follows the plot of Rybakov's trilogy. Set in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, it tells the story of Sasha Pankratov (Yevgeny Tsyganov), a student and loyal Komsomol member from the Arbat neighborhood of Moscow who is unfairly exiled to Siberia. As his family and friends, including his love interest Varya Ivanova (Chulpan Khamatova), grapple with Sasha's sudden detention and departure, the series shows the growing fear and paranoia that gripped Moscow in the years before the murder of Sergey Kirov and the start of Stalin's Great Purge.

References

  1. ^ Children of the Arbat on KinoPoisk


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