Detachment
Detachment In 1947, Aleksei Mitrokhin comes to the post-war Moscow to visit his friend Argunov, a former battalion commander, who saved him from execution during the war. It turns out that the commander has been convicted for 25 years and is now serving his sentence in a high security prison camp. Mitrokhin decides to make a daring attempt to get his friend out of there at all costs…
Mitrokhin feigns an assassination attempt on Stalin and is sent for 25 years to the highest security camp Lazo, in Karelia. At last, in a bunkhouse he is reunited with his ex-commander. “I’ve come for you, commander,” is the only thing he tells Argunov.
No one has ever escaped from Lazo. The prison camp borders with the lake to the north and the south side is surrounded by barbed wire. At first, Aleksei’s escape plan seems like a crazy idea but then it turns out that before the war he studied in a hydraulic engineering college and undertook an internship at the place where Lazo is located. Aleksei comes up with an almost impossible scheme: to escape using floating peat islands.
Genre: Thriller/ Drama
Episodes: 8
Produced by: Yuri Sapronov, Andrei Smirnov, Dmitri Meskhiev
Written by: Ilya Rubinstein, Valentin Emelyanov
Directed by: Sergei Popov
Director of Photography: Yuri Shajgardanov ('Palm Sunday', 'Robinson', 'The Roadside House')
Production Designer: Aleksandr Zagoskin
Line Producer: Vladislav Vasilyev
Cast: Igor Petrenko (as Mitrokhin), Andrei Smolyakov (as Argunov), Kristina Kuzmina (as Argunov's wife), Andrei Panin, Yelena Lyadova, Nikolai Dobrynin, Vladimir Kolganov, Igor Sklyar, Dmitriy Podnozov, Andrei Zibrov, and others.
