The Optimists. Caribbean Season (Season 2) - Russian feature film series from 2021. Historical drama
Production: film company "Rosmedia Production", Russia, 2017
Director: A.Popogrebsky
Screenwriter: M. Shprits, M. Idov, L. Idova, E. Vanina, E. Morozov, Y. Lukshina, A. Popogrebsky
Starring: E. Boyarskaya, S. Bezrukov, S. Janusauskaite, A. Bely, A. Bystrov, R. Mukhametov, P. Agureeva, E. Yankovskaya, O. Byron
Duration: 8 episodes of 50 minutes each
Plot of the series Optimists. Caribbean season (season 2):
The series takes place in 1962. The confrontation between the USSR and the USA has reached its highest point, and cold war was ready to escalate into a hot phase. And considering that both powers possessed the greatest nuclear potential, a third world war could destroy life itself on Earth.
The stumbling block was tiny Cuba, where a few years ago, not without the help of the USSR, a socialist revolution had won and Fidel Castro had become the head of the country. The very existence of a communist pro-Soviet regime next to its borders was unacceptable for the USA, and after the USSR began secretly transferring nuclear weapons to Cuba, the Americans threatened a retaliatory strike.
See also: Optimists (Season 1)
The world was sliding towards a nuclear conflagration. But the leaders of the USA and the USSR were in no hurry to sit down at the negotiating table, afraid of losing face due to possible concessions and compromises.
But negotiations were still conducted. On the American side, by a journalist close to the Kennedy family, and on the Soviet side, by the third adviser of the embassy, Fokin.
Several months before these events, Soviet intelligence officer Pavel Nesterov in the USA found himself on the verge of failure and his leadership urgently recalled him to the Union. Nesterov was removed from intelligence work and appointed head of the information and analysis group in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The employees of this department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are young, energetic and creative people – optimists, as they call themselves. They believe in the bright future of their country, its peaceful coexistence with the capitalist world.
When Nesterov took over the IAG, they, without realizing it, found themselves in the thick of the Caribbean crisis. Hawks on both sides were trying to disrupt the negotiations and destroy the only channel for communication.
And Nesterov and his subordinates, risking their lives, try to save the situation.
They are assisted in this by CIA agent Alex Bradley, who arrived in the USSR under the guise of a photographer. The leadership gives Alex a task: to recruit Nesterov and find out from him the name of the Soviet resident in Washington.
However, Alex soon learned that this could lead to the breakdown of peace negotiations. Since the resident was the third adviser of the embassy Fokin. In this situation, when the world was on the brink of disaster, all sober-minded people had to find a way out. Therefore, Alex and Nesterov decide to join forces in the fight for peace...
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