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The Raskrutka

The artist Oleg Petrushin, accused of murder and rape, is released from the Krasnodar remand prison for lack of evidence. The father of one of the victims takes the law into his own hands and kills Petrushin. At the same time, the villain Viktor Pertsev is arrested in Moscow for a double murder. The case is being handled by Captain Yuri Devyatkin and Panteley Evdokimov, an intern from the Ministry of the Interior Academy – their relations being a modern version of those between Zheglov and Sharapov. During a crime re-enactment, Pertsev manages to escape by killing a Prosecutor’s Office detective and friend of Captain Devyatkin. Oleg Petrushin’s sister, formerly a well-known pop-star, asks the Moscow Attorney Dmitriy Radchenko to prove her dead brother’s innocence. She tells him that there exists a diary that might help identify the real killer and rapist. Radchenko goes in search of the diary. Captain Devyatkin finds out that the repeat offender Pertsev used to be close to Oleg Petrushin’s sister: they had an intense affair. Devyatkin gets to know this woman, who is currently suffering after an unpleasant divorce, and tries to get information from her about Pertsev. But she refuses to talk, terrified by her former lover’s reappearance. Meantime, Attorney Radchenko is trying to find Petrushin’s diary and unexpectedly discovers that Petrushin is still alive. Radchenko attempts to find him but, together with his friend and partner, inadvertently gets caught up in a fight in which the brother of a local crime boss is killed. Radchenkos’ life now hangs by a thread.

Will he find the diary and help identify the real maniac? Who is the real Oleg Petrushin? Will Captain Devyatkin and Major Panteleev realise who was killed instead of Oleg Petrushin? What is the villain Viktor Pertsev’s part in all this? And what is the secret concealed in the artist’s hidden diary?

Cast: Alexander Naumov, Evgeniy Antropov, Elena Korikova, Andrei Barilo, Alexander Makogon, Mikhail Gorevoy, Kirill Kyaro, Alexander Sirin, Yuri Shlyikov, Ivan Agapov, Yuri Nofontov, Leonid Timtsunik

Genre: Detective/thriller/drama

Number of episodes: 8

Year of production: 2009