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Germany 1947: In the aftermath of World War II, CIA codebreaker Christina Banks confronts brutal Soviet secret police captain Ivan Serov.
Moscow 1938: At the height of the Stalinist purges, anyone suspected of being insufficiently loyal to the regime went missing. Serov and an American journalist plot to rid the Soviet Union of one of its most despicable killers.
Written and directed by Ian Melamed: https://www.instagram.com/ianmelamed
CASTING
Ivan Serov – Ian Melamed: https://www.instagram.com/ianmelamed
Christina Banks-Lexi Minetree: https://www.instagram.com/leximinetree
Allison Banks-Ronnie McFarlane: https://www.instagram.com/veronicamcfarlane
Nikolai Yezhov – Johnny DiGiorgio: https://www.instagram.com/johnnydigiorgio
Eugene Yezhova – Celeste Bernstein: https://www.instagram.com/celeste.bernstein
Lavrenty Beria – Sam Keeney: https://www.instagram.com/skeeney47
William Hawkins – Brandon Whipple: https://www.instagram.com/whipple.mov
Hans Kroeger – James Donovan: https://www.instagram.com/jamesxdonovan
Olivia Emily – Amelia Mackey: https://www.instagram.com/melie_monster
Jason Branson – André Walker: https://www.instagram.com/martial.flow
Isaac Babel – Jason Pollak: https://www.instagram.com/jasonpollak
Maxim Gorky – Cameron Morris: https://www.instagram.com/camartmor
Mikhail Tukhachevsky – Sébastien Rabassa: https://www.instagram.com/sebastian.rabassa
Genrikh Yagoda – Johnny Marx: https://www.instagram.com/heresjohnnymarx
Boris Alexandrov – Rhett Huie: https://www.instagram.com/rhetthuie
Nadezhda Markova – Victoria Martzloff: https://www.instagram.com/torimarz
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MUSIC
Yablochko: traditional Russian song arranged and performed by Ian Melamed
The Endless Steppe: traditional Russian folk song arranged for four cellos and performed by Ian Melamed
RESOURCES
This film was made possible with information provided by Memorial, a Russian civil rights group that documents and honors victims of Soviet oppression. More information about their mission and initiatives can be found at this link. https://memorialcenter.org
Further inspiration came from New York Times bestselling author Nathalia Holt's Wise Gals, which explores the history of the CIA from the perspectives of five women who started the agency. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669603/wise-gals-by-nathalia-holt
Additional research was drawn from Simon Sebag Montefiore's Stalin: In the Court of the Red Tsar and The Man Without a Face, an autobiography by former East German spymaster Markus Wolf.
https://www.amazon.com/Stalin-Court-Simon-Sebag-Montefiore/dp/1400076781
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Without-Face-Markus-Wolf/dp/1891620126
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