Rodina (TV series)
| Родина // Homeland | |
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| Based on |
Prisoners of War by Gideon Raff |
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| Country of origin | Russia |
| Original language(s) | Russian |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 12 (list of episodes) |
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| Producer(s) | Timur Weinstein |
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| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 48–68 minutes |
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| Original network | Russia-1 |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | March 16, 2015 – present |
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| Website | |
"In adapting the most important thing - to find the salt, the essence of the story that touches the audience, how to convey emotion on screen. We need to do a story that is very close to the Russian audience."
Rodina (Russian: Родина; Homeland) is a Russian political thriller television series developed by Pavel Lungin and Timur Weinstein based on the Israeli series Hatufim, which was created by Gideon Raff, and it is a second adaptation after the American adaptation Homeland by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa.
The series stars Viktoriya Isakova as Anna Zimina, a Federal Security Service (FSB) officer and Vladimir Mashkov as Alexey Bragin, a Russian Marine Corps sniper. Anna had come to believe that Alexey, who was held captive by Chechen terrorists as a prisoner of war, was "turned" by the enemy and threatened the Russian Federation.
The series is broadcast in the Russian Federation on channel Russia-1, and is produced by WeiT Media. The first episode aired on March 16, 2015. The series was a ratings hit, with the premiere the network's highest-rated show in two years.
The series begins in 1993. Marine Colonel Alexey Bragin and sniper Yuri Khamzin go missing during a military operation in the North Caucasus.
Six years later, a joint force of the FSB's Alpha Group and Spetsnaz GRU raids a terrorist camp in the North Caucasus. Capturing a bunker, they find a bearded Colonel Bragin chained to a wall. Bragin's liberation becomes a media event. Physically and psychologically exhausted by long years of torture and solitary confinement, Bragin begins working with doctors and psychologists, as well as Anna Zimina, an expert analyst from the FSB's Counterterrorism Center.
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