Scripted series · REN TV
Rooks
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Artyom Tkachenko
Александр Ратников
8 eps
Aleksey Makarov
Гюнтер
8 eps
Aleksey Serebryakov
Жданов
8 eps
Evgeny Koryakovsky
Капитан
8 eps
Evgeniya Dmitrieva
Эмма Марковна
8 eps
Daria Balabanova
Оксана
8 eps
Nikita Kuchikhidze
Олег
8 eps
Mikhail Evlanov
Серко
8 eps
Roman Gribkov
Павлов
8 eps
Elena Plaksina
Тамара
8 eps
Aleksandra Bogdanova
Головина
8 eps
Sergey Komarov
Клее
8 eps
Mikhail Danilyuk
Антон Полуэктов
8 eps
Dmitry Topol
Духарь
8 eps
Vadim Pirozhenko
командир партизанского отряда
8 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Rooks actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Rooks reads strongest on Cliffhanger Intensity, Spectacle and Tension.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The story
What it's about
The year is 1947. Police captain Alexander Ratnikov is investigating a series of murders in Leningrad. The trail leads to Pavel Vedernikov, a technologist at a local fish farm. It turns out that in fact, technologist Vedernikov is a former deputy head of the Nazi concentration camp for children "Grachi" named Gunther Seiler. Skillfully posing as a Soviet citizen, Zeiler hunts for his family's art collection, which disappeared during the war. The criminal is ready to walk over corpses, just to get what he wants and go beyond the cordon. Ratnikov intends to catch Seiler at any cost: this Nazi is the only clue in the story of the captain's daughter, who disappeared during the war.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Direction
- Ilya MaximovDirector
Music
- Andrey KliminovOriginal Music Composer
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