Ivan Samokhvalov (Production)
Little is known about Ivan Samokhvalov, a figure with a modest footprint in Production. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
The Highway
Svetlana sets out to find her adopted daughter, who left to find her real parents and disappeared. At the same time in this resort town, a thirteen-year-old girl shoots her sleeping family, after which she tries to hang herself. A neighbor comes running to the gunshots and pulls the girl out of the noose. The head of the police of the district entrusts the investigation of the high-profile case to investigator Elvira Barayeva. But how are Svetlana, a St. Petersburg judge with a dark past, and her adopted daughter Kira connected to this case and this place?
Release Date:2024-09-05
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:12
Middle of Nowhere
Former classmates gather in the district center of Warmaly for the twentieth anniversary of graduation. The glorious anniversary is overshadowed by a car caught from the pond, which has been lying at the bottom since the memorable graduation. Inside the car there is a corpse and an unusual stone that turns out to be a meteorite. The investigation draws everyone gathered to celebrate into a funnel: it exacerbates old conflicts, confuses the already difficult relationships of former classmates, their teachers and parents. Everyone learns something shocking about themselves and others: who they were in the 90s, who they became and what they are capable of in the present.
Release Date:2023-06-23
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:3
The Silver Spoon Goes South
Moscow with its glossy skyscrapers and busy highways is no longer home for Igor Sokolovsky. He took his daughter Sonya and moved to the picturesque countryside in the south. A cottage in the mountains, steep winding tracks, and a new eco-hotel as a family business - that's what his life is about now. But before the hotel's grand opening everything goes awry. The place gets smashed, then Sokolovsky meets another silver-spooner and steps on the toes of a local power broker who wants to destroy an entire residential area and build a winery there.
Release Date:2022-12-22
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:5
Chimera
In 2012, the security forces won a large-scale war against drug trafficking. The largest shipments were intercepted and supply corridors from Afghanistan and Europe were paralyzed. But in just one year, a new one was created on the ruins of the largest underground market in Europe. And now modern technology and young geniuses have come here, turning the drug trade into a high-tech industrial industry.
Release Date:2022-09-15
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:12
Ostap Bender: The Final Hustle
1919, Solnechnomorsk. Talented adventurers have become too unexpected: now they are wanted by the Russian and Turkish police. They go to the south of Russia to take possession of the golden scepter of Count Rumyantsev. In pursuit of a precious little thing, terrorists, circus performers and even participating ladies can dress up as them. Meanwhile, Ostap’s mother is approaching the paws of the gloomy Satanist Crowley, in whose treasury, by a mysterious coincidence, there is also a scepter ...
Release Date:2021-11-05
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:49
Reaper Bay
A teenage girl was murdered in Kaliningrad. Investigator Eva Kaidas recalls that 20 years ago, 13 girls were killed in a similar way, the maniac was never found. Then the maniac, changing his voice, talked live with the famous local journalist Roman Rakhmanov, host of the talk show "Voice of the Monster". Eva and Roman, having gone through a complete rejection of each other, a passionate romance and mutual suspicion, uncover a convoluted series of murders stretching for 20 years, as well as cope with their own fears and long-standing mental trauma.
Release Date:2021-08-25
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:12
Vote Count:5
Bender: Gold of the Empire
The hunt for imperial gold continues. A priceless scepter, a treasure that could secure a worry-free life in sunny Rio de Janeiro for Ibrahim Bender and his young apprentice Ostap, has slipped from under their noses and ended up in possession of Nestor Makhno, an anarchist army commander. Makhno is convinced that the scepter is one of many imperial relics hidden in the area. With mafia, partisans, and officers of the Red and White armies all determined to get their hands on the fabled gold cache, Ostap and his mentor Ibrahim must surpass their own brilliance to outmaneuver their rivals and snatch the prize. And with Ostap’s beloved fair maiden losing her trust in him, he must do everything in his power to win her back and stop her from marrying another man.
Release Date:2021-07-15
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:71
Bender. The Beginning
Russian Empire, 1919. By a twist of fate, young idealist Osip Zadunaisky meets an infamous con artist and self-proclaimed Turkish subject Ibrahim Bender. A man of pure thought and aristocratic upbringing, Osip would never have associated with a cunning and unscrupulous swindler, but Bender comes up with an offer Osip cannot refuse. A precious royal relic, a diamond-encrusted golden scepter is hidden somewhere in town; Bender needs a partner on his mission to find it, and offers Osip a share of the profit from selling the treasure. And so begins their joint venture, wrought with comical and dangerous twists and turns, where they have to outsmart and outmaneuver officers of the White Guard as well as the local mafia, who also have their eyes on the scepter. As their quest unfolds, Osip is compelled to learn Bender’s tricks of the trade: charming flattery, delicate deception, soft intimidation... as well as brute force.
Release Date:2021-06-24
Department:Production
Job:General Manager
Vote Count:40
Golem
The plot is based on the story of a village demented youth. He is a local fool, living in a poor hut with a sick mother. His neighbors are the Jewish family of the local blacksmith Mendel, and he is secretly in love with his youngest daughter Sonya. When the war starts, the Germans quickly occupy the village. Panic begins among the Jews, as well as in the Mendel family, and they try to equip a shelter at home, which the young man becomes aware of. Hoping to get the blacksmith's house, he reveals this secret to the Germans, but the German military police take him to their headquarters. The protagonist finds Sonya in his garden and wants to save her life, not imagining what difficulties this decision will turn out to be for everyone.
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Frozen
On a snow-covered highway near the northern town of Kostomuksha, police find the frozen corpse of a woman in a frozen car. The victim is the wife of investigator Evgeniy Rudin. The rage that has taken possession of the hero leads him along the path of senseless cruelty, the victims of which can be both innocent people and those close to Rudin. Evgeniy finds unexpected support in the face of a strange boy Mitya. Meanwhile, the killings continue.
Release Date:2022-12-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:7
Vote Count:4
Patient Zero
USSR, 1980s. The Elista Children's Hospital is experiencing the country's first major HIV outbreak, with more than 70 children and several adults infected. Now everyone: doctors, patients, relatives need to preserve human dignity in the face of a terrible disease for which there is no cure yet.
Release Date:2022-05-19
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:7
Vote Count:19
Contact
A story about a juvenile inspector who was left by his wife and now is raising a teenage daughter alone. In order to establish a better relationship with her, he decides to stalk her using a social media account that actually belongs to a young man he has been working with. This ‘fathers and sons’ story about today’s teenagers and the midlife crisis.
Release Date:2021-09-09
Department:Production
Job:Production Director
Episode Count:9
Vote Count:9
Kitchenblock
Summer 1980. While the Olympics held in the USSR, strange and horrible things are happening in a run-of-the-mill pioneer camp. It turns out pioneer vampires exist not only in horror stories. Smart beyond his years, independent, sensitive and determined to go all the way for the right reasons, main hero Valerka, arrives at summer camp ‘Thunderbird’ for 3 weeks of carefree recreation. Little brave boy secretly aim to discover the reason behind his brother death. Harmless and eternal journey begins to turn around when he soon discovers that one of his roommates is actually sucking the blood. Now, the independent hero must team up to find out how the vampires ended up in a Soviet summer camp, how to destroy them, and who actually killed his brother. Upon the way, Valerka learn how to trust, meet friends and sacrifice himself to the one he truly fell in love. The cost of everyone`s freedoms turned him into a vampire. Has he turned into a monster forever?
Release Date:2021-05-19
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:36
Tell Her
What is to be a child to whom parents ask the same question every day: whom does he love more? Mom or dad? What should mom do if she madly loves her son, but circumstances force him to take the child away from his father? What should be done to dad if his son is taken to America forever, and he cannot imagine his life without him? This is a story of choice. When deciding for a child, a parent often does as he is comfortable with. The child agrees, afraid to hurt the parent, but time will pass, he will mature and at some point he will decide for himself. Only the parent from this will be much more painful.
Release Date:2021-05-13
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:8
Crystal City
Investigator Sergei Smirnov, must return to the city of his childhood to investigate some high-profile murders. In Crystal city, there is a maniacal pedophile on the loose. Not only does he torture and kill children, he does it in a devious, brutal way. Sergei is the best in his field, so he entrusted with the investigation. Sergei has a complex character; the hero has obviously been through a lot, and his most terrible secrets are buried here, in Crystal city, where Sergei was born and raised.
Release Date:2021-04-20
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:18
Married Life Scenes
Young couple Polina and Nikita are going to divorce, however suddenly revealed a very unexpected truth: a nasty client accidental murder of an agency where both work, bringing back their relationship an old passion. Finally this incidental happening leading a couple to become serial killers.
Release Date:2021-04-18
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:3
Silver Spoon
The silver spoon masterfully escapes from prison and starts a new life. New sweet life! Sokolovsky joins the secular crowd, where everyone is sitting on a new synthetic drug, and he is again surrounded by cars, villas and top models. Friends, enemies and the FSB are following the trail of the silver spoon, trying to understand what game he has started and on whose side he is. Igor is trying to understand who he is - a traitor, a saint or is it the same ... silver spoon?
Release Date:2021-01-02
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:23
Sherlock: The Russian Chronicles
This mystery thriller throws a Russian spin on one of the world’s most famous characters, the series follows the esteemed detective from London to stunning St Petersburg, on the trail of a suspected serial murderer. Sherlock Holmes (Maxim Matveyev) is on the hunt for Jack the Ripper. The infamous killer left a bloody trail in London and fled to the Russian Empire, with Sherlock on his tail. With new characters, Dr Kartsev and Sophia supporting Sherlock, and a new nemesis in Znamensky, this is an exciting, glossy action series.
Release Date:2020-10-22
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:6
Just Imagine Things We Know
Ambitious creators of the telegram channel "PPCHMZ" are rapidly gaining hundreds of thousands of subscribers. For them, this is just the beginning: the girls are full of ideas and are not going to stop. However, scandalous revelations and overdue loans await them on their way to fame. A large investor offers to help them get rid of financial problems, whose only condition is to accept Yevgeny Malyshev, a well—known journalist of the old formation in the past - the "conscience of the era of the 2010s" - into the team. Now they will have to make decisions and fight for new subscribers together.
Release Date:2020-09-24
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:6
Consequences
Several years ago, a successful businessman Andrei learned that one of his three daughters was not from him. He divorced his wife and obtained full custody of the children, prohibiting his ex-wife from approaching them. Everything was going well, until one day Andrei was diagnosed with a terrible diagnosis: he has cancer, and he has a few months to live. He understands that girls need a mother, otherwise no one will take care of them after his death. Andrei proposes to his girlfriend, but then accidentally meets his ex-wife and understands that he still loves her.
Release Date:2020-06-03
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:8
The Last Minister
When an active loser is appointed the Minister of Planning, no one can imagine what this will lead to. It turns out that the new minis- ter really wants to change people’s lives for the better and for this, together with the team, is actively promoting his own initiatives. True, these initiatives are not always reasonable, and the result is extremely unpredictable.
Release Date:2020-03-26
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:16
Vote Count:14
Trigger
Artem is 35 years old. He’s a psychologist, he uses this provocative methodology successfully until one of his clients commits suicide. The one who Artem tried to heal from a suicidal mood by taking him to the roof and telling him that suicide was the right course of action. Artem is condemned to 8 years of colony, the psycholo- gist’s license is taken away, his wife Dasha (32) leaves him, his friends turn their backs on him. With the help of his best friend, Artem gets out of jail. All he is looking for is justice. He believes in his method and wants to prove that it’s actually working and the blame of the patient’s death is not on him. Each episode is a sep- arate case, Artem is brilliantly solving other people seemingly im- possible problems. But will he be able to save himself?
Release Date:2020-02-10
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:16
Vote Count:50
About Vera
A lonely girl, Vera, lives by studying and taking care of her sixteen-year-old brother. Vera tries to replace both her mother and father, who have been missing for several years, for a difficult teenager. As a gift of fate, an adult man, a successful businessman-builder, bursts into her life. Passion and high romantic flight turn into a tragedy for Vera: businessman Maxim turns a large-scale financial scam around the girl, after which she becomes the main person involved in the criminal case.
Release Date:2020-01-13
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:8
Kilimanjara
At the wedding day the beautiful bride Marusya is left alone by her fiancé. She decides to find him by any cost with her friends and they travel to motherland of the groom – Azerbaijan – where they get into the greatest adventure they ever experienced.
Release Date:2018-08-02
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:3
Sparta
If you ever asked yourself what if there is any place where all your desires could suddenly come true, you should play «Sparta». «Sparta» is a game without any rules. Experiencing the game will change your life by the reason of virtual world crossing the borders and becoming the part of our daily routine.
Release Date:2018-07-09
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:12
Gogol. Viy
A mysterious Dark Horseman slays young girls near the village of Dikanka, and he has already butchered 11 ladies. Nikolai Gogol, a scribe from Saint Petersburg has to take charge of the investigation, but the closer he gets to solving the case, the more fits he has, causing macabre visions. When he learns the next victim is his beloved, Liza, he doubts that he can protect her and resist the murderer. Fortunately, he meets somebody who can help him: Khoma Brut, the witch hunter, martial artist and philosopher. Together they spend three dreadful nights in an old chapel reading the funeral service for Ulyana, the witch, and calling upon the ghastly evil spirit Viy.
Release Date:2018-04-05
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:73
Porcelain House
The year is 1982. Katya Koroleva, an athlete and a beauty, flees from the investigation to her sister in Moscow. Her sister gets her a job as a saleswoman at the Porcelain House store. Here Katya meets a KGB general, not knowing that her sister is cooperating with him. On the eve of Brezhnev's death, a real confrontation begins between two structures - the Interior Ministry and the KGB. Katya finds herself drawn into both this confrontation and a love triangle. And she is also overtaken by a criminal history, from which she escaped from Belgorod at one time.
Release Date:2017-10-30
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:1
Territory
The series of shocking murders are forcing two absolutely opposite detectives to unite. Working as a team helping them to solve the crime but they understand that winning the war never means that war is over.
Release Date:2017-10-04
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:8
Gogol. The Beginning
The year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print runs just to burn them all. He is suffering from violent epileptic seizures and struggles to keep on working. Investigator Yakov Guro accidentally witnesses one such fit and realizes that Gogol's visions contain clues that could help solve actual crimes. Together, Gogol and Guro take on a particularly weird and baffling case that brings them to a small village of Dikanka, where everyone has a huge secret to hide.
Release Date:2017-08-31
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:95
Klim
Klim Roshchin is a policeman who started out as an ethologist before the police, studied the life of wolves, and lived in a pack. He uses his animal instinct to catch criminals. A unique policeman who does not use weapons. His arsenal includes deduction, intuition, provocative interrogations and knowledge of the habits of animals. And, of course, an increased sense of justice, because of which he will find all the bad ones, but also all the good ones, his own, will lose.
Release Date:2016-01-31
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:8
It Couldn't Be Better
Victoria Chernova lives up to a certain point, as befits a beautiful bird in a golden cage – without thinking much about anything. She has an exemplary husband and child, a beautiful and rich house, cheerful and successful girlfriends. And there is not a single wrinkle on the forehead, because all the problems have been solved for years to come. But suddenly it turns out that fate gave her all this once in advance. Moreover, now Victoria must repay this debt: so, one evening her husband unexpectedly announces that he has found another... That same evening, Vika is forced to start a new life: without money, with a child and a small suitcase of things, she moves to live with her son's nanny. And now she needs to earn at least some food somehow… Victoria is forced to get a job in an ordinary supermarket. Unexpectedly for herself, she will suddenly make a career in it. And he learns the real price of everything and everything: money, meanness, and love.
Release Date:2015-09-07
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:12
Locust
The innocent summer affair began as a love story between two young people. Lera and Artem could not break it off, as well as they didn`t have enough of faith, patience and desire to overcome all the obstacles on their life path. The Locust Generation wants to have all at once. The Locust generation will sweep everything on its way. The affair began as a naive young love and passion will turn into a series of bloody assassinations.
Release Date:2014-06-25
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:46
Some Like It Cold
When three 18-year-old students at a prestigious University - Mika, Kit, and Swift - dig up dirt on their crazy college principal, the hunt for the would-be blackmailers begins. Fleeing from their pursuers, the three amigos find themselves on the women's snowboarding team bus. They have no choice but to put on the team's brightly colored jackets and blend in with the crowd of snowboarding girls. But the clothes alone won't cut it: as diehard practitioners of extreme sports, they are not about to miss their chance to show off their snowboarding skills. The National Women's Snowboarding Team's trainer Svetlana Nikolayevna spots the new talent and invites the "girls" to join the team for the trials in Sochi. The friends jump at the chance of free rides on Olympic-grade tracks and once and for all evading the college principal's goons.
Release Date:2014-02-06
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:22
Super Max
Maxim Zhdanov's life consists of funny practical jokes, crazy ideas and experiments. But everything changes when his family moves to a quiet suburban village with absolutely nothing to do. And then there's trouble at school: after successfully passing the test, the teachers transfer Max to a class for gifted children, having considered the boy's talents as a child prodigy. Classmates and friends label him a "nerd", and Max becomes an outsider to ordinary guys.
Release Date:2013-07-20
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Episode Count:20
Cinderella
Masha Krapivina - is yet beautiful, and not that clever. She is just an ordinary girl, like thousands of her peers from different parts of the country, who risked to try to conquer Moscow and left their native country town.
Release Date:2012-02-14
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:18
Sleep With Me
Nick's investigator goes on the trail of a maniac nicknamed the Sculptor, who immures young girls alive in plaster. Upon arrest, she beats the villain to a critical condition: the maniac falls into a coma. Two victims have not yet been found, and Nika decides to cooperate with former psychotherapist Maxim, who allegedly knows how to read the minds of others.
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:1
Coal
Andrey, a journalist with great ambitions, is approaching his fortieth birthday as a financial and emotional bankrupt. Meeting with young Sasha, nicknamed Ugolek, an unusual model with burnt skin, gives him a chance to start from scratch. He writes an article about the fate of Ugolka, which causes a wide public response. Andrey goes to Sasha's homeland, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, to investigate other facts from her past. Andrey will have to do hard work to uncover the truth and bring it to his readers. Sasha helps him pass this test, who, despite the severe trauma of childhood, turns out to be able to lead him out of a life impasse.
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:1
Elevator
The place of action is an elevator. It is installed in a huge building where shopping galleries, a business center, a fitness center and restaurants are located. Everyone needs an elevator, sometimes urgently, sometimes very urgently. Visitors to the building and elevator passengers represent the widest range of characters, professions and lifestyles.
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:1
Deadly Retribution
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:1
The Vapors
Hot Springs, Arkansas - Home to healing waters, dozens of churches, and America's original national park as well as illegal gambling, countless backrooms and brothels, and some of the country's most bald-faced criminals.
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Episode Count:1
Superheroes
What would have happened if Quentin Tarantino had shot 17 Moments of Spring, James Bond had become a Buddhist, and Amelie had worked at the passport office? The heroes of this show are the most famous movie characters: Terminator, Batman, James Bond, Stirlitz, Leon, Pretty Woman, Bridget Jones, Spider-Man, Superman, vampires from Twilight, Harry Potter, Hannibal Lecter and many others. You will see that real movie characters can be not just funny, but super funny!
Release Date:2013-09-08
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:14
Vote Count:1
Маяк
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:1