| The Thaw | |
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| Genre | Drama |
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| Directed by | Valery Todorovsky |
| Starring | |
| Composer | Konstantin Meladze |
| Country of origin | Russia |
| Original language | Russian |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
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| Cinematography | Ivan Gudkov Fyodor Lyass |
| Production company | Marmot-Film |
| Original release | |
| Network | Channel One Russia |
| Release | 2 December – 10 December 2013 |
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The Thaw (Russian: Оттепель, romanized: Ottepel) is a Russian television series which debuted in 2013. Valery Todorovsky debuted as a TV director with it. The series is a melodrama about life in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev Thaw, specifically about film artists of the age. Relational is that Todorovsky's father worked on film in roughly this era. In the West the series has been compared to Mad Men in terms of tone and visuals, though the subject and plots are quite different.[1]
- ^ Matt Zoller Seitz (29 January 2016). "Inside The Thaw, Russia's Version of Mad Men". Vulture.