Moscow Noir

5.9
201845m

In turn-of-the-21st-century Moscow, an innocent trade plunges Swedish investment banker, Tom Blixen, into a battle with millionaires, politicians, oligarchs and their private armies.

Production

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Seasons

8 Episodes • Premiered 2018

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1. Episode 1

Moscow, 1999. The height of the Wild East. A risky deal plunges Swedish investment banker Tom Blixen into a battle between millionaires, oligarchs and their private armies.

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2. Episode 2

Despite Baranov's murder, Tom still needs the Neftnik deal. He moves onto another buyer, the ostentatious businessman Gusev.

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3. Episode 3

Tom is arrested as a suspect by Detective Skurov, as Fredrik goes to meet his blackmailers to try to call them off.

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4. Episode 4

Skurov's investigation is being stopped from above. Fredrik knows he has to run, but when Tom arranges for him to sell his shares to RusOil.

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5. Episode 5

Tom heads to Fredrik's Swedish cottage looking for the Neftnik shares, but he's attacked by gunmen. Meanwhile Olga finds she's not safe even at home, and heads back to Moscow to finish the deal once and for all.

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6. Episode 6

As Tom and Skurov close in on the Neftnik owners, Skurov is blackmailed with the Darya photos. Tom and his boss Rebecka head to RusOil to complete the deal, but a tax raid closes the company down.

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7. Episode 7

Kruglov takes Olga to meet the mystery Neftnik owner.

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8. Episode 8

Skurov finds that Tom is with Strelka, and puts together a plan with Rebecka to save Tom and take Strelka down. In the process, Rebecka makes enough money to get out, and Skurov catches his corrupt boss Karimov.

Cast

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Linda Zilliacus

Rebecka Ekholm

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Adam Pålsson

Tom Blixen

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Brian McCardie

Lord Pendergast

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Karolina Gruszka

Olga Ukolova

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Christopher Wagelin

Fredrik Kastrup

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Georg Nikoloff

Dmitri Skurov

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Reviews

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Henry_Staszak

The action "Moscow Noir" takes place in Moscow in the 90s of the last century. Tom Blixen (in this role known, among others, from the series "Broen" by Adam Pålsson) is a Swedish investment banker. To improve his quotes in the company, he mixes into suspicious interests, and hence - collusion with millionaires, politicians, oligarchs and private arias.

"One of the authors of books from the Moscow Noir series, Paul Leander-Engstrom, is a Swedish economist who has known the milieu of the Moscow financial elite.It belonged to pioneers in the growing Russian capital market. Leander-Engstrom established cooperation with his student friend , the author of well-known Swedish detective Camilla Grebe, and used a literary medium to share her experience, a three-part series about the brutal world of Russian finances from the end of the 20th century, where the most ruthless players met in the fight for big money. history on a small screen.
The series was recorded in Lithuania, as well as in Sweden, Russia and Finland. The characters talk to each other in English, Swedish and Russian. Behind the camera stood Mikael Håfström, one of the directors of the well-received Netflix series "Bloodline" and the creator of the Oscar-nominated film "Evil". One of the most important roles is played by Polish actress Karolina Gruszka, who often appears in foreign productions.

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