Children of Arbat

Children of Arbat

Set in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, it tells the story of Sasha Pankratov, 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, 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.

Creators and cast

Directors

Andrey Eshpay

Created by

Yuliya Damsker, Valentin Chernykh

Cast

Evgeny Tsyganov, Daniil Strakhov, Yevgeniya Simonova, Maksim Sukhanov, Chulpan Khamatova, Inga Strelkova-Oboldina

Studio

ARK-Film, Novyy russkiy serial