In 2007, the series “Sled” was released on Russian television screens, overshadowing all previous criminal epics in popularity. Currently, the number of episodes of the Russian "Santa Barbara" is already approaching 1000, the series has been awarded three TEFI awards in 2009 and 2012 and has a multi-million audience. Over the course of its existence, several thousand actors have starred in it and a novel based on the four-episode spin-off “Kufiya Bite” has been released.
Plot
The popular television series, which includes six seasons, tells of the nonexistent FES service, which organizes the work of a large number of diverse experts. This service investigates the most complex, complicated and high-profile crimes. Cases are conducted by highly qualified specialists from various fields, who usually own several professions: detectives, forensic medical experts, forensic scientists, programmers, trasologists, ballistics and pathologists. Well-coordinated work in the team is carried out under the guidance of a smart and beautiful "iron lady".
The television series also includes the film projects "The Gardener", "Sled-52" and "Kufiya Bite". The main characters fight criminals, simultaneously solving their personal problems and saving their organization from liquidation.
main characters
The head of the FES is Colonel Galina Rogozina, the main character of the epic, it depends on her only the effectiveness of the organization, the atmosphere in the team, but sometimes the very existence of the FES. Her right hand, an assistant and possibly beloved Major Kruglov, often performs detective work, interrogating suspects. The most active participants in the FES are field investigators, Maysky Maysky, Kotov, Lisitsin, Sokolova, who carry out most of the operational-search activities, and interview witnesses.
An amazing fact was recorded in several regions of the Russian Federation: law enforcement agencies began to receive complaints from citizens about fraudsters posing as employees of a fictitious organization of the FES.
Ballistics-trasologists Igor Shustov and Tatyana Belaya, programmer-biologist Ivan Tikhonov, the programmer and biologist Ivan Tikhonov work extraordinarily in the morgue. It is on their work that the main events of the series are built, they are involved in most of the scenes. These characters are shown not only as effective experts and investigators, but also as highly spiritual, principled, incorruptible people for whom the chosen profession is not just work, but a duty to society and to oneself.
Based on real events.
The creators of the series claim that all FES cases are fictitious, but coincidences with real crimes are not excluded. Nevertheless, the created four-episode spin-off “Sadovnik” is based on a real high-profile case about a serial maniac, who hunted around 49 murders in the area of Moscow Bitsevsky Park. In particular, the film clearly reveals the motives for the murder, which were clarified by real law enforcement officials, and some details of the crimes. For example, a serial maniac used to hammer and put apple branches into the wounds of his victims, in reality Pechushkin put not only branches and fragments of bottles, but also other garbage.
