Shadow of Chikatilo (TV series 2024) - Russian TV series 2024. Detective, thriller, drama Screen adaptation of a true story Mikhail Popkov, известного как «Ангарский маньяк»
Production: «Окко», Россия, 2024 год
Filmmaker: S. Andreasyan, D. Dadunashvili
Scriptwriter: S. Volkov
Starring: F. Lavrov, N. Kozak, D. Vlaskin, Y. Afanasyeva, O. Kamenshchikov, E. Shirikov, V. Razbegaev, D. Nagiyev
Duration: 8 episodes of 50 minutes
The plot of the TV series Shadow of Chikatilo (TV series 2024) :
The events unfold in the mid-90s of the XX century, a few years after the arrest of one of the most brutal maniacs in the USSR - Andrei Chikatilo. Police Colonel Kovalyov is summoned to Moscow, where he receives an order from the Minister of Internal Affairs to be appointed Deputy Head of the USSR Criminal Investigation Department.
However, Kovalyov is not destined to stay in the high office for long. In Angarsk, Irkutsk region, a high-profile crime takes place: a well-known journalist is murdered, and the president of the country has taken the investigation under his personal control. According to the minister's order,
Kovalyov is immediately sent to Angarsk with a strict assignment to find the killer as soon as possible. But upon arrival and familiarizing himself with the circumstances of the case, he realizes that it will not be possible to solve it quickly.
Тем временем в городе продолжаются убийства девушек, и Ковалёв приходит к печальному выводу: в Ангарске орудует новый Чикатило — жестокий и хитрый маньяк, на поимку которого уйдут долгие годы…