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. It was produced by Cargo Film with the participation of

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. It is a Russian adaptation of the French series ''

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''. The series was first broadcast in Russia from April 2017.

Plot

The

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are four police agents in the

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area of

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: Oleg Caplan (

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), Pavel Karpenko (Denis Shvedov), Feodor Vachevsky (Aleksandr Pal) and Oxana Golikova (Lukerya Ilyashenko). Their colleague Andrey Ryzhov (

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) is accused of criminal misconduct, and commits

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in the prison. His guilt is then presumed, disrupting the lives of the other four. The four police agents then decide to "cross the red line": do whatever is necessary, even breaking the law, to clear Ryzhov's name. In crossing the red line, however, they fall under the close scrutiny of Borodin, of the police internal affairs bureau, a sworn enemy to Caplan.

Cast

as Oleg Caplan *

Aleksandr Pal Aleksandr Vladimirovich Pal (; born 16 December 1988) is a Russian actor. He appeared in more than fifteen films since 2013. Biography Pal is a descendant of Russian Germans caught up in the Urals as a result of repression. Initially, he did n ...

as Feodor Vachevsky *

Denis Shvedov Denis Edouardovich Shvedov (; born 24 November 1981) is a Russian actor, best known for his role in ''The Major (film), The Major''. Biography Denis Shvedov was born in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR, Soviet Un ...

as Pavel Karpenko *

as Andrey Ryzhov * Lukerya Ilyashenko as Oxana Golikova * Sergey Shnyrev as Anton Drozdov * Tamara Saksina as Olga Bagrova * Andrey Tashkov as Borodin * Gleb Podgorodinsky as Sotnikov *

Aleksandr Galibin Alexander Vladimirovich Galibin (, born 27 September 1955) is a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian actor noted for playing the Master in the miniseries ''The Master and Margarita (miniseries), The Master and Margarita'' (2005). His acting career s ...

as Kiselev * Sergey Ugryumov as Zatsepin * Oleg Almazov as Svechin * Pavel Chinaryov as Marik * Iris Ivanova as Nina

Production

The series was shot in

References

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{{IMDb title, tt6822170 2017 Russian television series debuts Russian crime television series Russian workplace drama television series Russian police procedural television series Television shows set in Russia Television shows set in Kaliningrad Channel One (Russia) original programming Fictional portrayals of police departments in Russia

Plot

Cast

Production

See also

References

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