Today, together with Official Partner Russia Television and Radio, we invite you to screen three major productions from their Russian drama catalog. The concentration camp drama Cloister was one of the biggest premieres in Russia during the past spring season. The TV movie Elsa’s Land tells the love tale of two people in their 70s and The Lockdown is a thrilling detective drama set in a small resort.


Cloister (https://pitchplay.tv/ceescreenings/48)
Genre: Drama, 8x52'

Late 1920s. Solovki. The ancient monastery, lingonberry woods, picturesque lakes and freezing cold, hunger, pain and sufferings of people in the Solovetsky concentration camp. A passionate love story between a prisoner Artyom and a Cheka officer Galina unfolds in a place where everybody is striving to survive at any cost. Their love is hopeless, dangerous and doomed to be tragical.

Elsa’s Land (https://pitchplay.tv/ceescreenings/47)
Genre: Drama/Romance, 1x95'

A retired geography teacher Leonid and recently widowed Elsa meet and fall in love. Their friends and family are appalled: both Elsa and Leonid are in their 70s. They do not approve of this relationship, considering it indecent. But Elsa and Leonid do not intend to hide their love; they're going to get married and go traveling to find their own land – Elsa's Land.

The Lockdown (https://pitchplay.tv/ceescreenings/49)
Genre: Detective drama, 8x52'

A series of unexplained deaths shakes a small resort. An epidemiologist from Moscow demands to shut it down in order to find the source of infection and stop the epidemic. The "kings of the town" try to stop him, since the lockdown destroys their business. But their boss doesn’t know that the Moscow doctor is his young wife’s ex-lover.