Hunt for Manchurian deer (television series)

Russia , the second half of the 1990s . A large metallurgical plant in the city ​​of Akhtarsk is headed by experienced leader Vyacheslav Izvolsky. The impoverished region and the island of prosperity in the form of Akhtarsk and a rich plant, and distant Moscow with its money-hungry banks.

An emergency occurs: the director general of the Moscow branch of the Combine Nikolay Zaslavsky was kidnapped . The head of the AMK Security Service, Denis Cheryaga, flies to Moscow to clarify the circumstances of the case. With this unpleasant story, the long confrontation of the Combine and the Moscow bank Iveco begins ...

• Alexander Baluev - Vyacheslav Arkadevich Izvolsky, General Director of AMK
• Alexey Guskov - Denis Fedorovich Cheryaga, First Deputy Izvolsky
• Ekaterina Guseva - Irina Denisova, Izvolsky’s bride
• Yuri Kutsenko - Innokenty Mikhailovich Luchkov, Security Director of Iveco Bank
• Marat Basharov - Dmitry Neklyasov, Deputy Izvolsky
• Vladimir Zaitsev - Alexander Alexandrovich Arbatov, owner of Iveco Bank
• Vladimir Gostyukhin - Alexander Semenovich Dubnov, Governor of the Akhtar Region
• Mikhail Efremov - Gennady Igorevich Serov, General Director of Iveco Bank
• Roman Madyanov - Mikhail Ivanovich Fedyakin, AMK Financial Director
• Dmitry Nagiev - Mozart, the criminal authority of Akhtarsk
• Sergey Astakhov - Yuri Breler, security chief of the Moscow branch of the AMK
• Andrey Krasko - Vadim Ignatievich Skorosko, AMK Chief Engineer
• Alexander Lykov - “Koval”, a thief in law, head of the Dolgolaptevskaya criminal group
• Igor Lifanov - Vladimir Avdeevich Kalyagin, AMK security chief
• Evgenia Dobrovolskaya - Claudia Fedyakina, sister of the AMK financial director
• Maria Zvonareva - Lida Voronova, journalist
• Olga Krasko - stewardess Zoya
• Leonid Kuravlev - General Sokolsky
• Maria Anikanova - Vera, the lover of Victor Svinyagin (KamAZ)
• Anna Legchilova - Galina Sergeevna Skorosko, wife of Vadim Skorosko
• Larisa Luzhina - judge Balanova
• Tatyana Lutaeva - Elvira Zaslavskaya
• Andrey Mezhulis - Auzins
• Konstantin Milovanov - Nikolay Zaslavsky, General Director of the Moscow branch of AMK
• Lyudmila Nilskaya - Lisa Fedyakina
• Nikolay Olyalin - father of Izvolsky
• Ada Rogovtseva - Denisova's grandmother
• Alexander Semchev - Trepko, Deputy Governor of Dubnov
• Sergey Grekov - lawyer
• Agrippina Steklova - Sonya, Izvolsky’s sister, Neklyasov’s wife
• Oleg Taktarov - Victor Semenovich Sinyagin, “Kamaz”, team leader of the Dolgolaptevskaya criminal group
• Alexander Tyutin - Investigator Altyniev
• Mikhail Ulyanov - Ivan Alekseevich Senchukov, Director of the Helicopter Plant
• Svetlana Chuikina - Tomka, lover of Zaslavsky
• Larisa Shakhvorostova - Natalia Leonidovna, doctor of Izvolsky
• Alexander Vorobyov
• Alexey Oshurkov - a prisoner
• Vasily Shevelilkin
• Alexey Ogurtsov - a bandit
• Sergey Aprelsky - Shura "Elk"
• Alexander Karmanov - major of the tax police
• Maria Aronova - episode
• Alexander Nosik - episode
• Vladimir Gusev - episode
• Andrey Frolov - killer
• Victoria Adelfina - episode
• Nina Persiyaninova - episode
• Sergey Petrov - episode
• Elena Panova - episode
• Pyotr Merkuryev - episode

• Director: Abay Karpykov
• Script writer: Zoya Kudrya based on the novel by Yulia Latynina
• Director of photography:
  • Andrey Belkanov
  • Dmitry Mass
  • Mikhail Mukasey
• Visual effects:
• Set Designer: Victor Petrov
• Composer: Ruslan Muratov
• Sound Engineer:
• Installation:
• Make-up artist:
• Executive producer:
  • Innocent Malinkin
  • Alexander Syrov
• Producer:
  • Anatoly Maximov
  • Konstantin Ernst

The series was shot at the Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Combine . In the film - panoramic shots of the plant, made from a helicopter , open-hearth workshop , employees of the enterprise who participated in the crowd.

Part of the field shooting was made in Nizhny Tagil .

• Production: “Pro-Cinema Production” by order of OJSC “Channel One”
• Television feature film, color.
• First broadcast on central TV: October 2005, Channel One.

The author of the novel, Julia Latynina, was critical of the script. She commented on him like this ^[1] :

For example, at the end, the former investigator returns to the prosecutor's office ! It is as if the aliens wrote about human sex life: a girl grew up in a brothel , at 25 she managed to become a movie star and ballet dancer, but then she renounced everyday tinsel and returned to her native brothel.