16 August (2018-08-16) – 25 October 2018 (2018-10-25)
House Arrest (Russian: Домашний арест, romanized: Domashniy arest) is a Russian political comedy television series, broadcast on Premier streaming service in 2018 and on TNT television channel in 2020.[1]
Plot
Arkady Anikeev, the mayor of Sineozersk (lit. Blue Lake Town), a small town in the interior of Russia, gets arrested by the federal investigative service on bribery charges. Until the start of his trial, the town court sentences him to house arrest, but in his childhood home rather than his luxurious mansion. His wife has abandoned him, as all property was registered in her name. Once in the communal apartment, Arkady runs into Ivan Samsonov, who was a neighbor of his in the same apartment block during their childhood and used to bully him. Despite their differences, Arkady decides to assist Samsonov in becoming the new mayor of Sineozersk in order to help remove all charges against himself.
Cast
Pavel Derevyanko as Arkady Anikeev, ex-mayor of Sineozersk on house arrest
Aleksandr Robak as Ivan "Samson" Samsonov, an excavator driver and Arkady's neighbor who becomes a mayoral candidate
Anna Ukolova as Nina Samsonova, a nurse and wife to Ivan
Sergey Burunov as Pavel Osipenko, deputy mayor of Sineozersk who becomes acting mayor and mayoral candidate after Arkady's arrest
Marina Aleksandrova as Marina Bylinkina, associate professor of history and opposition opinion journalist
Egor Klinaev as Slava Samsonov, Ivan's teenage son
Yuliya Sorokina as Yulya Samsonova, Ivan's teenage daughter
Olesya Sudzilovskaya as Viktoria Anikeeva, Arkady's wife
Yana Koshkina as Lyolya, Arkady's and Pavel's mistress
Albina Tikhanova as Klavdia Saprykina, Arkady's elderly communist neighbor and a sassy gossiper
Vladimir Simonov as Eduard Kargopolov, rector of the University of Sineozersk and Marina's lover
Roman Pogorelov as Alexey Bylinkin, Marina's disabled son
Yola Sanko as Arkady's grandmother (appears in flashbacks)
Dmitry and Vadim Smirnov as Vitaly and Valery Smirnitsky, Arkady's twin bodyguards
The pilot episode was directed by a different director (Egor Baranov instead of Pyotr Buslov) and contented different cast. For example, Viktoria's character was portrayed by Elena Korikova instead of Olesya Sudzilovskaya.[3]
The main character, mayor Arkady, could have been played by Fyodor Bondarchuk.[4]