Children of the Arbat (serial)

Children of the Arbat Дети Арбата
DVD cover of Children of the Arbat
Genre	Historical / Period
Directed by	Andrei Eshpai
Produced by	Konstantin Ernst Andrei Kamorin Aleksandr Potemkin
Starring	Chulpan Khamatova Irina Leonova Daniil Strakhov Inga Strelkova-Oboldina Yevgeni Tsyganov
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Original channel	Channel One
Running time	765 min.
No. of episodes	16

Children of the Arbat (Russian: Дети Арбата) is a 16-part television serial based on the Children of the Arbat trilogy by Anatoly Rybakov. It aired on the Channel One network in Russia in 2004.

The series closely follows the plot of Rybakov's trilogy. Set in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, it tells the story of Sasha Pankratov (Yevgeni Tsyganov), a student and loyal Komsomol member from the Arbat neighborhood of Moscow who is unfairly exiled to Siberia. As his family and friends, including his love interest Varya Ivanova (Chulpan Khamatova), grapple with Sasha's sudden detention and departure, the series shows the growing fear and paranoia that gripped Moscow in the years before the murder of Sergey Kirov and the start of Stalin's Great Purge.

External links

• Deti Arbata (Children of the Arbat) at the Internet Movie Database
• (Russian) Дети Арбата (Deti Arbata) at RusKino.ru