Overview
- A closed pre-premiere screened the first two episodes on December 26 at the Yeltsin Presidential Library in St. Petersburg.
- Roughly 300 attendees included members of Yunarmiya and the Movement of the First, with support from the Leningrad Region youth committee and the veterans’ club Dom 4.
- NTV plans to air the series on December 29 and 30.
- The series, adapted from Yuri Grachev and Andrey Pravov’s book, portrays a covert KGB–CIA clash on the eve of the 1986 Reykjavik summit.
- Triix Media produced the show for NTV, with producers Inessa Yurchenko, Sergey Shcheglov, Timur Vaynshtein and Vadim Ostrovsky, and director Mikhail Vasserbaum; Yurchenko emphasized themes of the price of peace and personal responsibility, while co-writer Grachev said it draws on real events and sees echoes in current diplomacy.