Sherlock Holmes 

A Russian crime drama series, based on the Sherlock Holmes detective stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Stars:

Andrey Panin, Igor Petrenko, Mikhail Boyarskiy

1 win & 4 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Andrey Panin	...	Doktor Uotson 8 episodes, 2013
Igor Petrenko	...	Sherlok Kholms 8 episodes, 2013
Mikhail Boyarskiy	...	Inspektor Lestreyd / ... 8 episodes, 2013
Ingeborga Dapkunaite	...	Missis Khadson / ... 8 episodes, 2013
Anatoliy Rudakov	...	Treysi, pomoshchnik Lestreyda 7 episodes, 2013
Aleksandr Adabashyan	...	Redaktor izdatelstva 7 episodes, 2013
Aleksey Gorbunov	...	Professor Moriarti / ... 6 episodes, 2013
Lyanka Gryu	...	Iren Adler 4 episodes, 2013
Aleksandr Bezrukov	...	Sudmedekspert 4 episodes, 2013
Sergey Byzgu	...	Ugolovnik 3 episodes, 2013
Aleksey Shevchenkov	...	Inspektor Khiggins 2 episodes, 2013
Vera Karpova	...	Miss Bokli 2 episodes, 2013
Galina Mochalova	...	Missis Softli 2 episodes, 2013
Andrey Semenyuk	...	Konstebl Gregson 2 episodes, 2013
Leonid Maksimov	...	Serzhant Uilkinson 2 episodes, 2013
Aleksey Chardymskiy	...	Konstebl 2 episodes, 2013
Arkadiy Koval	...	Posol Gemanii / ... 2 episodes, 2013
Kirill Ulyanov	...	Klerk v izdatelstve 2 episodes, 2013
Sergey Rublev	...	Konstebl Bayton / ... 2 episodes, 2013
Tatyana Ryabokon	...	Gretkhen, zhena posla Germanii 2 episodes, 2013
Leonid Yarmolnik	...	Branton / ... 2 episodes, 2013
Olga Volkova	...	Emma Naligan, tetya Luizy Barnet / ... 2 episodes, 2013
Svetlana Migounova	...	American Council's Wife / ... 2 episodes, 2013
Danila Shevchenko	...	Arthur West / ... 2 episodes, 2013

Storyline

"Sherlock Holmes" is a Russian detective television series produced by the film company Central Partnership, filmed by director Andrey Kavun based on Arthur Conan Doyle's stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes. Eight stories about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson have been filmed, each of which has two episodes. The series includes new versions of stories, as well as stories, first transferred to the Russian screen.

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Plot Keywords:

medical officer | contusion | retirement | intention | medical practice | 

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Taglines:

Same but completely different.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama

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Details

Country:

Russia

Language:

Russian

Release Date:

18 November 2013 (Russia)

Also Known As:

Sherlock Holmes

Company Credits

Production Co:

Central Partnership, Channel One Russia

Technical Specs

Runtime:

44 min (8 episodes)

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

All filming of Victorian England for eight months was carried out in Russia, places were selected in St. Petersburg (including in Kronstadt and Pushkin) and its surroundings - in Vyborg, Gatchina, Ivangorod.

User Reviews

Highly polished, strong stories

Sherlock Holmes: There is no doubt the writers and director of this show are engaged in radically redefining the character of Conan Doyle's eccentric 'consulting detective.' But I have followed this series through 4 episodes so far, and I find the effort surprisingly effective. In the general sense, this revision of Holmes is successful because of it basic premise: Watson is an aspiring writer who is working his way to becoming the author of the stories published under the name Conan Doyle that we are all familiar with. Unfortunately, the real Sherlock Holmes that he becomes involved with is unappealingly nerdy and asocial. And the adventures the two share are difficult, violent, and engage the grime of London's underworld, and the corruption of England's most trusted institutions. We can see how Watson might want to simplify, clean up, and romanticize these adventures for marketable publication.

And they are real adventures, have no doubt. The storytelling in this series has been remarkably strong. It's difficult to pull away from any episode once it hooks you at the beginning, which it does very quickly (the series has a very lively pace). Despite the revisions, the series does honor to Doyle's originals.

The design, the direction, the camera work, the acting, are all highly impressive; this is a most polished series of historical genre films. (The one quibble I have is that Holmes makes too much about his glasses, he is too frequently busy with them. A trifle, but occasionally annoying.)

Over all, I find the series fascinating and look forward with great anticipation to the next episode.

Note: There are currently four series of films attempting to revise the canon of Conan Doyle's brilliant Victorian detective for the 21st Century. One from the UK (Sherlock, for TV), one from the US (Elementary, for TV), one from Russia (Sherlock Homes, for TV), and the internationally produced films of Guy Ritchie, starring Robert Downey. Notably, each involves a radical re-envisioning of the character and his place in the world. We may have reached a point in history when filmmakers simply cannot give us the Great Detective as he was imagined by Doyle and played (with variations) throughout the 20th Century. Rating the 4 series: Sherlock Holmes (Russia): 9 of 10, with strong stories and a believably proletarian nerd Holmes. Sherlock (UK): 6 of 10; excellent first season has been betrayed by Steven Moffat's flashy showmanship until the stories are incoherent now (Season 3), the characters no longer likable, the focus almost completely lost. Elementary (US): 4 of 10; the redefined Holmes, a nervous, unsympathetic recovering drug addict, is not without interest, and any show with Lucy Liu in it gets the benefit of her quiet but charismatic presence and talent. But basically, this is just a routine American police procedural with a gimmick. I doubt that Hollywood can do anything else. Sherlock Holmes (Ritchie/Downey): 1 of 10. This series lacks any coherence in its stories or continuity. It's just a series of set-pieces with running around, fist fights, explosions, and campy jokes.