Sled (TV series)

Sled
Genre Criminal, Detective
Created by Konstantin Ernst
Vsevolod Aravin
Yuri Kharnas
Starring Olga Koposova,
Vladimir Tashlikov,
Anna Dankova,
Evgeny Kulakov
Pavel Shuvaev
Sergey Pioro
Georgy Teslya-Gerasimov Andrey Lavrov and others
Country of origin Russia
Original language(s) Russian
No. of seasons 7
No. of episodes 1100 (29.12.2014). In production.
Production
Executive producer(s) Alexander Levin
Boris Kokin
Running time 30–52 minutes
Production company(s) TeleRoman
OTK
Release
Original network Channel One Russia (2007-2011)
Petersburg – Channel 5 (Since 2011)
Picture format 480i (SDTV),
1080i (HDTV)
Audio format Dolby Digital 5.1
Original release September 3, 2007 – present
Chronology
Related shows CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
External links
Website

Sled (translated as Trace; Russian: "След") is a Russian crime drama television series about employees of Federal Expert Service ('FES'), the fictional organization. It was broadcast on the Channel One Russia from September 3, 2007 till August 25, 2011 (Monday – Thursday, night TV broadcast).[1] According to Alexander Levin, Producer, the idea of the TV-series belonged to Konstantin Ernst.[2] From September 5, 2011 premiere episodes broadcast on Petersburg – Channel 5, and show has high ratings.[3][4]

FES

The show tells the story of new governmental body created in MVD to solve X files and high crimes cases. FES (Russian: "Федеральная экспертная служба") is Federal Expert Service, bringing together specialists in various areas: software development, ballistics, forensic and investigators. FES is doing the whole range of expertise and researches, and it is investigating the most complex and intricate crimes. Launched as an experiment, FES trains young professionals and it assists to other special organizations as FSB and MVDs branches in solving crimes. Any investigator or detective, people from the Prosecutor's Office and a police officer can ask FES for a help. There was futuristic office created especially for shooting: laboratory, a meeting room, a morgue, interrogation room and so on.[5] There was number of cases when Russian citizens complained to FES, because they were not aware that the organization shown in the TV-series was fictional. Press Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Primorye Territory asked residents to beware of scams that have long posed as employees of FES.[6][7]

The show is considered as Russian adaptation to American "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation".

Creators

Cast

Production

The filming process is very intensive: six episodes in one time. In the first months of the project, shooting could be up to 18 hours per day, then - up to 12 hours.[8][9] Many actors, including leading actors, did not survive the rhythm of the shooting and left the project. At the time of filming an Episode 450 there were already 3500 actors.[10]

Awards and Nominations

TEFI Award:

Prize of The Association of Professional Producers of Film and Television in TV-Movie:

References

  1. ↑ Sled TV Series on Channel One Russia
  2. ↑ About Sled TV Series on Echo of Moscow radio station
  3. ↑ Audience opinion about Russian TV Series
  4. ↑ Kommersant.ru about Sled ratings
  5. ↑ KP.RU about Sled TV Series shooting
  6. ↑ Crime victims in Primorye complain to the fictional organization
  7. ↑ Sterlitamak crook posing as an employee of the Federal Expert Service, took away mobile phones among teenagers
  8. ↑ Olga Koposova: «In Sled I'm ready to work even in 1000 episodes!» // KP.RU
  9. ↑ Sled TV Series lost a good professional.// KP.RU
  10. ↑ Where Sled goes?
  11. ↑ 1TV.RU news
  12. ↑ TEFI Nomination of Sled TV Series
  13. ↑ Prize to Sled TV series

External links

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