Deadly Power (TV series)

The action begins in 1999 in St. Petersburg . The plot focuses on the operational staff of the district police department and the slaughter department of the headquarters. The first season of the series includes a story connected by a single plot (9 episodes). In the following seasons, as a rule, each series is an independent criminal detective story.

The main characters of the series Igor Plakhov and Vasily Rogov are police officers, their service is associated with the disclosure of both domestic crimes and the fight against organized crime . Working for a penny wage and risking their lives, the heroes do their duty. In the first season, the main characters are employees of the district police department. Anatoly Dukalis, who in turn does not lose touch with his old friends, the heroes of the series “ Streets of Broken Lights ”, is transferred to the department to Plakhov and Rogov. Starting from the second season, the employees of the district department Plakhov, Rogov and Shishkin are transferred to the “commander’s office”, under the direct supervision of the general (San-Sanych). Here their paths diverge from the "cops" (Dukalis, Volkov, Larin and Solovets). The service throws them to a variety of places: ( Los Angeles , Chechnya , Cote d'Azur , South Africa ) and everywhere they demonstrate high professionalism, resourcefulness and a sense of humor, which allows them to come out of the most difficult trials with honor.

The plot of the series has a lot of hidden parody, reminiscences and quotes from famous films and books (“The White Sun of the Desert ”, “ Colombo ”, “ Features of the National Hunt ”, “ Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed ”, “ Old Robbers ”, works about Sherlock Holmes and many others).

• Season 1
• Season 2
• Season 3
• Season 4
• Season 5
• Season 6

See also the episode List of the television series “Deadly Force” .

• Konstantin Khabensky - senior lieutenant (from the 2nd season - captain) Igor Sergeyevich Plakhov (seasons 1-6)
• Andrey Fedortsov - senior lieutenant Vasily Ivanovich Rogov (seasons 1−6)
• Sergey Selin - captain Anatoly Valentinovich Dukalis (season 1)
• Alexey Nilov - captain Andrei Vasilievich Larin (season 1)
• Alexander Polovtsev - Major Oleg G. Solovets (season 1)
• Mikhail Trukhin - Senior Lieutenant Vyacheslav Yurievich Volkov (season 1)
• Evgeny Leonov-Gladyshev - major (from the 4th season - lieutenant colonel) Anatoly Pavlovich Shishkin (seasons 1−5)
• Victor Kostetsky - Major General Alexander Alexandrovich Maximov ( San Sanych ) (seasons 1-6)
• Sergei Koshonin - Major Maxim Pavlovich Virigin (seasons 2−6)
• Evgeny Ganelin - Major Georgy Maksimovich Lyubimov (seasons 2−6)
• Alexander Tyutryumov - lieutenant colonel Sergey Arkadievich Egorov (seasons 2−6)
• Yuri Galtsev - Yuri, forensic expert (seasons 1−2)
• Semyon Strugachev - captain Semyon Chernyga, forensic expert (seasons 2−6)
• Victor Soloviev - captain (from the 5th episode of the 2nd season - major) Grigory Streltsov (seasons 2-6)
• Victor Bychkov - Albert Pomerantsev, informant (seasons 1-6)
• Mikhail Porechenkov - captain Nikita Andreevich Uvarov, customs officer (season 6)
• Sergey Murzin - Boris Kravchenko, a friend of Plakhov (seasons 1-4)
• Georgy Shtil - Fedor Ilyich Petrov, Rogov's father-in-law (seasons 1-6)
• Olga Kalmykova - Rogova's mother-in-law (seasons 1-6)
• German Orlov - Ivan Fedorovich Izyumov, investigator of the prosecutor's office (seasons 1, 3-4)
• Nikolay Lavrov - deputy of the Legislative Assembly Arkady Viktorovich Bogolepov (season 1)
• Igor Lifanov - Sergey Anokhin, nicknamed Fan (season 1)
• Stanislav Sadalsky - prosecutor Anatoly Lvovich (seasons 1, 3)
• Julia Rudina - Alena, girl Plakhova (seasons 2-3)

• Script writers: Andrey Kivinov , Oleg Dudintsev, Alexander Rogozhkin , Victor Buturlin , Gennady Ostrovsky
• Directors: Alexander Rogozhkin , Victor Buturlin , Evgeny Tatarsky , Victor Sergeyev , Vyacheslav Sorokin , Alexander Burtsev, Evgeny Aksyonov , Rodion Nakhapetov , Sergey Snezhkin , Iskander Hamraev , Vyacheslav Nikiforov , Andrey Proshkin , Sergey Osipyan , Mikhail Brashinsky , Dmitry Iosifilna , Ulja , Ulitsa Ulitsa , Andres Puustusmaa , Alexander Karpilovsky , Vadim Ostrovsky, Anton Bormatov
• Director of photography: Yuri Shaigardanov , Alexander Korneev, Andrey Zhegalov , Dimitri Mass , Eduard Rozovsky , Yuri Elkhov , Vladimir Sporyshkov, Sergey Machilsky , Yuri Raysky , Andrey Makarov, Victor Novozhilov, Valery Martynov, Andrey Vorobyov, Ilya Dyomin , Igor Klebanov
• Composers: Igor Matvienko , Vladislav Panchenko , Stanislav Vazhov , Vadim Bibergan , Anatoly Kalvarsky , Svyatoslav Kurashov, Maxim Dunaevsky , Victor Sologub , Alexey Karpov, Dato Evgenidze
• Artists: Vladimir Bannykh, Vadim Griberg, Vladimir Yuzhakov, Irina Tselikova, Valery Bokovenko, Vladislav Orlov, Elena Zhukova, Yuri Pashigorev, Vladimir Svetozarov , Vladimir Dyatlenko, Pavel Novikov, Andrey Ponkratov, Valery Viktorov, Vladislav Nikulin, Maria Belozerova
• Stunt Director: Oleg Korytin, Sergey Golovkin
• Producers: Anatoly Maksimov , Konstantin Ernst , Tatyana Pleskunova, Mikhail Kirilyuk, Sergey Melkumov .

It all started with great success, which fell to the lot of the series "Cops" (" Streets of Broken Lights "). In 1998, the low-budget production of TNT channel with unknown actors in the lead roles unexpectedly earned a high rating and audience sympathy. However, in 1999, after disagreements between the TNT channel management and the scriptwriter Andrei Kivinov, the latter went to the competitors, Channel One, where he proposed the idea of ​​filming a series with a similar script based on his works ^[3] . The co-author of the script was the former colleague of Andrei Pimenov (“Kivinov” - the pseudonym Pimenov) for the Kirov police department of Leningrad ^[4] .

In the pilot episodes of the project, the actors who played in the series “Streets of Broken Lights”: Selin, Nilov, Trukhin, and Polovtsev ^{[5] were} invited to play. However, then the initiative completely passed to the new heroes of Khabensky and Fedortsov ^[2] . The series premiered on March 13, 2000 on the ORT channel. In the premiere year, an interesting situation arose in the broadcast network. Two popular series, "Cops" and "Deadly Force", went at the same time on two competing channels NTV and ORT with the same main characters. Moreover, according to experts of the TNS Gallup Media agency, the rating of the premiere episodes of "Deadly Force" was higher ^[6] .

The series received conflicting ratings. On the one hand, critics noted professional directorial and cameraman work, the bulge of characters, humor, and non-standard scenario solutions. But it was impossible not to notice the secondary character of the series as a clone of the series “Streets of Broken Lights”. The image of the heroes, “cops” from the neighboring regional branch, somewhat faded and lost their originality ^[7] .

Despite the obvious borrowing, “Destructive Force” as conceived by the creators is not a continuation or offshoot ( spin-off ) of the “Streets of Broken Lights”. The series has a different concept. The stories are more adventurous in nature, detective situations are much more diverse: heroes infiltrate an organized criminal group that goes to the top of power. Some episodes have a clearly political accent (operation in Chechnya ). Wider geography of the series. The names of the invited stars ^{[8] [9] are} much louder.

Exploiting the ideas of their predecessors, the creators gave the protagonists somewhat absurd features that do not correspond to the idea of ​​fighters against organized crime and supermen in uniform. Plakhov and Rogov are heroes with a full complement of shortcomings, not particularly successful in their careers and personal lives.

In "Cops", the good-natured Tolyan Dukalis started as a supporting hero, [...] Having come out in the "slaughter" version as the main character, almost a hero-lover, he not only gives up the palm in the part of unluckiness and amusement to the newly-fledged miserable Vasya Rogov, a kind of cop Chonkin, but also farther and farther away in the new-found heroism, is moving away from the previous Dukalis essence.

The producers of "Deadly Force" had an accurate calculation in that part that the current "Cops" have gone far from those who were in the first series and which they loved. That street recognition that created the “Cops” phenomenon has gone, just as the “Vzglyda” phenomenon created the street recognition of young presenters who were so out of the ordinary at the time type of celestial celebrities.

- Elena Afanasyeva. Novaya Gazeta ^[7]

Konstantin Khabensky in an interview, restrained-negatively spoke about his work in the series:

- And how do you assess yourself in "Deadly Force"?
- Humanly - normal. But from a professional point of view - no.

- Konstantin Khabensky. Interview with TV Park Magazine ^[10]

• Award " TEFI -2000" in the nomination "gaming television series"
• The best series at the film festival "Vivat, Russian Cinema!" - 2002

For the advertising campaign of the series, a video clip “Opera” was recorded performed by the Lube group ^[11] . In one version, at the end of the clip, the text of the announcement of the series is read by the producer of the series Anatoly Maximov .

• “Opera” - music by Igor Matvienko , lyrics by A. Shaganov and P. Sinyavsky, performance of the “Lyube” group
• “Call me” - music by Igor Matvienko, lyrics by V. Pelenyagre
• “Breaking Strength” (main theme) - music by Igor Matvienko. (redone version of the Lyube song “After the War” 1-3 seasons)

• Format: DVD (PAL) (Keep case)
• Distributor: ORT Video
• Area Code: 5
• Soundtracks: Russian Dolby Digital 2.0
• Image format: Standart 4: 3 (1.33: 1).

Alekseeva Yu. E. Series of destructive power. - M .: Anagram, 2008 .-- S. 59—86. - 160 p. - (Club of lovers of series). - 4000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-903646-12-8 .