The Thaw (TV series)

The Thaw
Genre	Drama
Written by	Valery Todorovsky Alyona Zvantsova Dmitri Konstantinov
Directed by	Valery Todorovsky
Starring	Yevgeny Tsyganov Aleksandr Yatsenko Anna Chipovskaya
Composer	Konstantin Meladze
Country of origin	Russia
Original language	Russian
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	12
Production
Producers	Valery Todorovsky Maksim Koroptsov Elena Kozhanova
Cinematography	Ivan Gudkov Fyodor Lyass
Production company	Marmot-Film
Original release
Network	Channel One Russia
Release	2 December (2013-12-02) – 10 December 2013 (2013-12-10)
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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]