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Russian Movie Night: 7 Great Features
Let the binge-watching begin!
Optimists
Valery Todorovsky Production Company
It’s a holiday! Finally! In the absence of friends and relatives, what better way to finally relax than to get cozy in front of the TV for some serious binge-watching? Here are seven fictional series or feature films about Russia and their neighbors that got the thumbs up from a highly opinionated, extremely demanding, multi-generational, mixed Russian and American audience.
“The Optimists” (2017)
Billed as “The Russian Madmen,” “The Optimists” combines the thriller-like aspects of a Cold War spy drama with the more mundane internecine spats of the workplace drama. The one-season series follows the fortunes of a cadre of employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow at the dawn of the 1960s. As senior management grapples with the changing geopolitical realities, the rookies th ....

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