The Russian detective series "Challenge" is filmed in the genre of an intellectual detective - a logical investigation of crimes that pose a certain difficulty for ordinary investigators.
About the series
A group of Moscow investigators, Olga Barysheva, Igor Lyamin and Alexei Ilyich Khromov, were ready to go anywhere in the country to investigate intricate crimes that sometimes acquire a mystical connotation. Forensic specialists often have to fight not only with an intelligent criminal, but also with the resistance of their own colleagues on the ground. Excellent acting, picturesque pictures of county towns, intense plot - this is what makes you watch the series and enjoy it.
Content
The first season, like the second and third that follow, consists of three separate stories spanning four episodes.
The first story, titled "Both Slave and King", tells about the investigation of serial murders, the common thread of which is the performance of a mysterious rite.
The second story "Reflection" is devoted to a series of mysterious suicides that shook a small district town.
The story "Alien Shadow" tells about the appearance of a ghost in the city museum and the crimes that followed.
The second season was composed of the stories "Prediction", "Incubation period", "Sacrifice". In them, our investigating group will have to face the county psychics; a murder committed by a long-dead person, and a sect of Satanists, which began to actively interfere in the affairs of the task force.
The plots told in the third season are no less attractive.
The story "Zone of Retaliation" is about the investigation of the murder of the chief of militia of a Siberian district town by a mysterious creature.
The Death Level case is about the fact that the fascination with computer games sometimes takes you very far, when the death of players repeat the stories of their deaths in the virtual world.
Investigation "Seven Sons of Nga" will tell about the shaman and strange deaths near the Arctic Circle.
Despite the lack of exquisite special effects and shootings in the film's frames, the film occupied high lines in television ratings during the premiere screenings.
The fourth season is represented by two stories.
In the "Ghost Ship" plot, the cruise ship becomes an instrument of revenge, and our heroes, who accidentally get on it, find themselves drawn into this mysterious story.
No less interesting is the last story of the entire series called "The Lost".
A small town in fear of incomprehensible disappearances of people without a trace that occur after a call to their phone. Moreover, the music that sounds from the speaker of a mobile phone is always the same. What is it? Murders? Or maybe spontaneous teleportation?
Actors and filming
The series was filmed in Moscow and Vladimir.
The main cast is represented by Dmitry Nazarov ("Kitchen"), Alexei Shutov ("Return of Mukhtar", "Leshy"), Natalia Zhitkova ("Daddy's Daughters", "Doctor Tyrsa"), Valery Afanasyev, Olga Vasilyeva.
Filmed three seasons of 12 episodes. In the fourth season - 8 episodes.
To the general regret of all the fans of the series "Challenge", and there were a large number of them, its filming was completed in 2009. However, the continuing interest in him leaves hopes for the resumption of filming. Moreover, there is already a similar experience in Russian cinema and television projects.
