Always on the post The performances of Leningrad television are distinguished by a special atmosphere of restraint and intelligence. Television performances and films made up a separate category of programs in the Union, attracting viewers to the screens after a hard day's work, and in many ways this related them to their foreign fellow workers. The favorite genres of both were detectives, adventures, crime, and who are the best authors, of course, Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Simenon. So this TV show based on detective Georges Simenon, for sure, was a success with the Soviet audience, who was not spoiled by shows of entertainment programs. It is now possible to install hundreds of TV channels, to watch which no one has time, subscribe to video channels on the network, watch to nausea “The Irony of Fate...” Previously, popular culture and art were presented to the public in doses, apparently so that the audience did not have a sense of satiety and that the sense of taste and quality did not suffer for the sake of quantity.
“Seven crosses in a notebook” production of Vladimir Geller with Alexandr Demyanenko in the title role, immerses the viewer in the atmosphere of Christmas Paris, despite the fact that the action takes place in the confined space of the police station and a television studio. Andre Lecker, a modest police officer, finds himself at the center of a serial murder investigation, he needs to unravel this case, since his unemployed brother, alone raising a young son, is suspected of terrible crimes.
In addition to this beautiful TV show, Geller has a very high-quality TV work that deserves attention. One of them is “Two Veronians” in 1971 according to Shakespeare, with the participation of Oleg Dahl, and “Escape” in 1988 is a wonderful production based on the novel by Leif Panduro “The Danish Fern”.
8 out of 10