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 the “optimists” of