The remarkable fact - Russian television dared to order and show series about the management of their own security. The series was a resounding name of "Department" and aired on Channel One.

Wolves in sheep's clothing

Crime drama "Department" tells the story of a team of professionals who investigate crimes committed by police officers. That they have caught for bribery, extortion and aiding the bandits of their own colleagues. They work against their own, because they do not just dislike, hate and fear them, because the department attract the best of the best, having a sharp wit and insight needed to hunt for criminals in law.

Police Captain Yuri Green (Semyon Shkalikov) encounters with the staff department of the Security Council after his eyes kill only a valuable witness, and suspicion falls on him that he told the killer time and place. Soon it becomes clear that the department, which is green, the police are corrupt, taking bribes for years. Together with the Department of Security, Captain Green Berets to unravel the chain of crimes and conspiracies, to find this traitor, substitute it pass.

To break out of a series of

Soaps with a detective story occupy almost a third of all output now shows. Authors of new items each have to contrive to get the attention of jaded viewers. In regard to the Russian TV, and skirmishes with militants and hunting for treasure and boring and intellectual investigation led by special advisor already have taken place. The series of the departments involved in the investigation of crimes within the police, if not knocked out of the plot, the main idea of ​​turning mediocre detective in a potential hit.

In the series "Department" just three director: Armen Harutyunyan, Eletskii Mikhail Zhernevsky Stanislav Mareev - each of them brings something different to the artistic and semantic component of the project. From the first frame it is felt that the creators are willing to fight for the audience's attention in all possible ways.

The story throws the bat, making it impossible to understand from the short dialogues that actually happening on the screen. Shooting and editing a variety of hit: closeups are replaced by the general in a chaotic sequence, often fall into the frame interior details, has not played for the plot development no role, however, embody hidden in the author's idea that never become apparent.

The script, co-written by Alexei Poyarkov ("Isayev") and Michael Schulman ("Evidence"), is a twisted detective story, the authors of which more into the opportunity to come up with a sudden turn than the need to logically justify every action in the story.

Heroes and villains

Protagonists of the show is the management team's own security department. The fact that in reality there is no such control, the authors did not stop the show to create a fictional team of professionals with all the references to the best American models: there are few experts on dry and sensitive world conspiracy analysts and insightful beyond measure psychologists.

The cast of "Department" is impressive, as the teamwork of actors who were able to give meaning even communicating dialogue. In the men's team of investigators, investigators are the two actresses, the best way to cope with their roles in the team. Victoria Tolstoganova and Daria Moroz complement male colleagues on the set, diluting the increased amount of testosterone on the screen.

The series also stars: Sergey Ugriumov Sergei Gazarov, Andrei Sokolov, Mikhail Truhin Timothy Tribuntsev, Eugene Miller, Mikhail Efremov, Mike Paul, Sergey Chirkov Aleksandr Robak, Elena Aroseva Mikhail Chepurov Paul Abramenkov and many others.

"Department" is made up of sixteen episodes, united by one cross-cutting theme, which develop within the individual detective stories. The show is dynamic, an increased intensity of action, in which more climaxes than solutions. The idea with the Department of Internal Security and intensity of action distract attention from the fact that, judging sensibly, it is no more than the average detective.

Anna Chizh

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