Rodina (TV series)

Rodina
Genre	Serial drama Psychological thriller Political thriller Espionage thriller
Based on	Prisoners of War by Gideon Raff
Developed by	Pavel Lungin
Starring	Vladimir Mashkov Sergey Makovetsky Viktoria Isakova Andrei Merzlikin
Country of origin	Russia
Original language	Russian
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	12 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Timur Weinstein Gideon Raff
Production locations	Moscow Moscow Oblast
Cinematography
Editors	Michael Schulman Pavel Lungin
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	48–65 minutes
Production companies	WeiT Media Keshet Media Group
Original release
Network	Russia-1
Release	2015 (2015) – present

Rodina (Родина = Homeland)) is an Russian political thriller television series developed by Pavel Lungin and Timur Weinstein based on the Israeli series Hatufim, which was created by Gideon Raff, and based on the American adaptation Homeland by Howard Gordon.

The series stars Viktoria Isakova as Anna Zimina, a Federal Security Service officer with bipolar disorder, and Vladimir Mashkov as Alexey Bragin, a Russian Marine Corps Sniper. Anna had come to believe that Alexey, who was held captive by Chechen terrorists as a prisoner of war, was "turned" by the enemy and threatened the Russian Federation.

Overview

The series begins in 1993. Marine Corps Colonel Alexey Bragin and the Sniper Yuri Khamzin missing during military operation of the federal forces in the North Caucasus.

Six years later, during a joint special operation of FSB's Alpha Force and Spetsnaz GRU in the North Caucasus, terrorist training camps were destroyed; while the soldiers captured the bunker, they found chained to the wall and overgrown beard colonel Alexey Bragin.

After six years been presumed dead, Bragin becoming a media event, and freed Bragin is found in serious psychological and physical condition, he exhausted by long years of torture and solitary confinement. Now, Bragin start working with doctors and psychologists, as well as Anna Zimmina, an expert analyst from the FSB's Counterterrorism Center.

Episode list

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	1	TBA	Pavel Lungin	TBA	TBA
2	2	TBA	Pavel Lungin	TBA	TBA
3	3	TBA	Pavel Lungin	TBA	TBA
4	4	TBA	Pavel Lungin	TBA	TBA
5	5	TBA	Pavel Lungin	TBA	TBA
6	6	TBA	Pavel Lungin	TBA	TBA
7	7	TBA	Pavel Lungin	TBA	TBA
8	8	TBA	Pavel Lungin	TBA	TBA
9	9	TBA	Pavel Lungin	TBA	TBA
10	10	TBA	Pavel Lungin	TBA	TBA
11	11	TBA	Pavel Lungin	TBA	TBA
12	12	TBA	Pavel Lungin	TBA	TBA

Cast and characters

• Viktoria Isakova as Anna Zimmina, a FSB Analysis expert of the FSB's Counterterrorism Center
• Vladimir Mashkov as Alexey Bragin, a retired Marines corps Colonel who is rescued by Spetsnaz GRU after being held by Chechen terrorists as a prisoner of war for six years
• Sergei Makovetsky as Mikhail Volskiy
• Andrey Merzlikin as Yuri Khamzin
• Maria Mironova as Bragin's wife
• Sophia Khilkova as Katya Bragina
• Valeriu Andriuta

Broadcast

The series was produced bt WeiT Media and is schedule to premiere on Spring 2015 on Russia-1.

External links

• Official website
• Russia Has Its Own “Homeland”, Move over, Afghanistan. Brody, or "Bargin," is in Chechnya this time, Author: Sarah Kaufman