The Bridge (Russian: Мост; Most, Estonian: Sild) is a Russian crime drama television series, developed by Konstantin Statskiy,[1] broadcast on the NTV network, and based on the Danish-Swedish series Broen/Bron.[2][3] The show stars Lithuanian actress Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė and Russian actor Mikhail Porechenkov in pivotal roles.[4] The complete series consists of two seasons of 10 episodes each.[5] The series debuted on NTV in the Russian Federation in 2018.[6] The show is broadcast in both Estonian and Russian languages.
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Genre | Crime drama Serial drama |
Based on | Broen/Bron by Hans Rosenfeldt Måns Mårlind Björn Stein |
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Country of origin | Russia |
Original languages | Russian Estonian |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 20 |
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Running time | 50 minutes |
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Original network | NTV |
Original release | May 21, 2018 (2018-05-21) – present |
The second series start on May 22, 2020.[7] The final episode was posted on July 24, 2020 and ended with a cliffhanger.
The series begins with the discovery of a dead body exactly on the centre of the Friendship Bridge, which links Narva with Ivangorod, necessitating a joint investigation. Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, as the Estonian police detective Inga Veermaa, stars in all two series. In the first and second, her Russian counterpart, Maksim Kazantsev, is played by Mikhail Porechenkov. It was broadcast on the Russian NTV Channel during the spring of 2018.
The Russian version takes place on the Russian and Estonian border where a murdered body on a bridge between Narva and Ivangorod (the Friendship Bridge (Narva) on the Russo-Estonian border over the Narva River) and brings together Narva detective, Inga Veermaa (Dapkūnaitė) who is mentored by Saint-Petersburg detective Maksim Kazantsev (Porechenkov), while Dapkūnaitė's character was originally called Inga Savisaar.[8]
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1 | 10 | 21 May 2018 (2018-05-21) | 25 May 2018 (2018-05-25) | NTV | |
2 | 10 | 22 May 2020 (2020-05-22) | 24 July 2020 (2020-07-24) | NTV |
The action of the series takes place on the border of Russia and Estonia. The centerpiece of the film is the bridge on the border, and a discovery of a female corpse. The body is found between the Russian town of Ivangorod and the Estonian city of Narva. The police forces of the two countries investigating the incident find that the upper part of the corpse belongs to a politician from Estonia and the lower part to a student from St. Petersburg.[9] The Russian Investigator is Maxim Kazantsev, the Estonian is Inspector Inga Veermaa. Together they investigate a series of crimes that are well prepared, skillfully executed and contain a "message" to society on the subject of social injustice.
Gradually Inga and Maksim understand that the perpetrator is only posing as a fighter for the truth. At the heart of the action is the motive of personal revenge, while the main enemy is Maksim himself.
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