On August 31, Channel One begins showing the detective series "The Presumption of Innocence" directed by Natalia Buchneva. The director has solid experience in this genre: she shot such criminal serials as “Sea Devils. Tornado 2 "," Drug Traffic "," Highway Patrol "," Streets of Broken Lights "and others. Among the screenwriters are Sergei Sokolov and Vitaly Shtutman, who worked on the script for Mummy.

In the center of the plot of the series is a successful lawyer Boris Avrutin performed by Kirill Rubtsov ("Chief. Raising game"). He is cunning, calculating, has excellent intuition. These qualities help a lawyer to win all cases, no matter what he undertakes - even the most hopeless ones. Once Avrutin, using the presumption of innocence, manages to achieve the release of the man who killed the policeman. The murdered man's colleagues do not agree to put up with this state of affairs. They set up surveillance for Avrutin in order to discredit him and remove him from the practice of law.

This line forms the basis of the series. At the same time, there are few dynamic events directly related to the “war” between the lawyer and the investigators: more often the investigation consists of monotonous conversations and peeping.

The beloved investigator Denis Glebov (Nikita Panfilov), the journalist Svetlana Vernitskaya, played by Svetlana Ustinova, is responsible for the activity on the screen. Vernitskaya, at the behest of the service, also needs to find out more of Avrutin's secrets. Unlike the police, the girl does not sit still: she breaks into the office of a lawyer, watches him in the bushes, and then practically manages to get into his trust. In a word, it is progressing in business much faster than professionals.

The routine that the main storyline turns into is successfully smoothed out by Avrutin's numerous investigations: they turned out to be alive and intriguing. Each has two episodes, during which the lawyer continually demonstrates amazing professional flair and other skills. In his first (in the series) investigation, he agrees to defend the girl accused of murdering her friend. All the evidence is against the client, but a short conversation with her makes the avokat believe in her innocence.

  • © Frame: TV series "The Presumption of Innocence" (2018)

"The presumption of innocence" boasts an excellent cast for the main roles. Kirill Rubtsov is very organic in the guise of Avrutin: intelligent, stately and at the same time, cunning and ambiguous. Nikita Panfilov also looks harmonious. He has repeatedly appeared before the audience in the form of a policeman, but the servants of the law in his performance are different and interesting in their own way.

Svetlana Ustinova is also good in her role: she fits the role of a journalist who, it seems, is ready for anything for the sake of investigation - including the loss of her lover's trust and disregard for professional ethics (however, the existence of this ethics would be news for the girl's on-screen colleagues as well). At the same time, the choice of Ustinova and Panfilov as lovers looks controversial: there is no "chemistry" between the characters. But she is definitely present between the characters of Rubtsov and Ustinova (by the way, the actress initially claimed the role of Avrutin's wife).

Daniil Spivakovsky, Natalia Medvedeva, Alika Smekhova and other artists also starred in the series. It is difficult to assess how accurate it turned out to be in the role of secondary actors: the audience knows little about their characters, and practically nothing about their lives.

It is impossible to feel sympathy or antipathy for secondary characters, which, along with the unhurried development of the main storyline, prevents full immersion in the plot. Therefore, for a sophisticated viewer, the "Presumption of Innocence" may initially cause associations with concise, informative criminal news.

However, thanks to the multi-layered plot and the parallel development of several crime stories at once, this detective is able to keep the public's interest. Moreover, laconicism played into the hands of the filmmakers: nothing - including melodramatic lines - can distract the viewer from the course of the investigation. Even the locations for the series have been chosen to match - the interior filming took place mainly in rooms with very simple decorations. In the frame, and in the tape as a whole, there is no room for unnecessary things: all the space is allotted to the next investigation of the lawyer Avrutin.