On Monday, Channel One starts showing the eight-part detective film “Formula of Revenge” - the sixth part of the franchise about the adventures of Major Ivan Cherkasov (starting in 2012, the films “Mosgaz”, “Executioner”, “Spider”, “Jackal” and “Operation“ Satan").

The action of the "Formula of Revenge" takes place in 1977 in Moscow. First, an unknown person pushes an architect student from the roof of the House of Art Workers. An observant housekeeper tells Cherkasov that after the incident only tenants left the entrance. Famous personalities live in the building - actors, musicians, fashion designers ... and one of them must surely turn out to be a killer.

Revealing a multilayered and complicated crime committed in the scenery of the world of Soviet bohemia is not easy. Cherkasov and his assistant, stepson Slava (Alexander Drobitko), learned a curious detail: it turns out that the deceased, like many residents of the house, was fond of horse racing. At the hippodrome, where investigators go, a new tragedy occurs - one of the jockeys is found dead.

Meanwhile, in the house of the stepfather of the murdered student, Buzyreva (Sergey Garmash), grief is again: the mother did not survive the loss of her son. However, Cherkasov suspects that the widower has something to do with both deaths. Later it turns out that drugs and those who distribute them are involved in the case.

Employees of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department Sonia Timofeeva (Marina Alexandrova), Alexey Garkusha (Alexey Bardukov) and Yegor Osadchy (Alexander Golubev) will again help the major (Andrei Smolyakov) in the investigation of crimes.

Additional storylines “Formulas of revenge” are dedicated to the personal relations of the MUR employees. So, Sonya Timofeeva was married to a subordinate, Garkusha - but he left her because of the imperious nature. Now he is vying for the attention of his ex-wife with Osadchim. Cherkasov lives happily with his wife Margarita (Daniela Stoyanovich) and stepson Slavik, but the woman is unhappy that her son has chosen a dangerous profession, and is angry when the major allows him to participate in the investigation.

Difficulties await another pair - Stas Shelest (Yuri Chursin) and his wife Julia (Sofia Evstigneeva). By the way, the hero of Chursin was introduced back in Mosgaz in 2012. The lead actor Andrei Smolyakov speaks of long-term cooperation with supporting actors with humor: “I envy them. Because they come, they have vivid roles, very intelligible - but I'm still the same, all in the same hat, ”says the actor.

  • © Shot from the movie “Formula of Revenge”

The director of the project was Sergey Korotaev, who had previously shot the crime series “Khmurov” and “Trap”. Korotaev considers the work on the Formula of Revenge to be an important creative achievement.

“This is a great experience and experience not only in working in such a new genre. This is an experience working with these actors, with the excellent composition that was put together. Of course, it’s very difficult to recreate an era. Because there are very few such objects, little remains of such a requisite. He was not cared for, everything was disposed of and reconstructed in the 1990s and 2000s. Therefore, now it is much easier to find something from the beginning of the twentieth century than from the seventies, ”Korotaev shared in an interview with RT.

The authors of the serial film set themselves the goal of plausibly re-creating the most diverse signs of the time: the VAZ “kopek”, the first jeans jackets, the lines behind the Yugoslav “wall” and the difficulties of traveling abroad. The problem of drug trafficking raised in the film was also gaining momentum in those years.

An interesting fact: the film crew left a comic trace in the "cinema universe of Cherkasov." In one of the series on the poster of the nonexistent play "Elementary Particle" you can see the name of screenwriter Elena Paradise as the author of the novel. Sergey Korotaev and Nazik Kasparova are indicated there as a director and artist, respectively - they performed the same duties when creating the film.

The show of the series has just begun, but Major Cherkasov has already prepared another case: work is currently underway on the multi-part film Katran. The following story will be even larger than the “Formula for revenge”, which, according to Sergei Korotaev, resembles the “Murder on the Orient Express” by Agatha Christie.

“The seventh season is devoted to gambling, an underground casino. And, despite the fact that there is one casino, the action takes place on large areas and affects the interests of more people, ”the director said.