Whirlpool of Other People's Wishes
TV Show · Crime · Drama

Makar lost the love of his life. Fifteen years later, he still cannot accept her death and, when he accidentally bumps into a witness from her inquest, it opens up an unhealed wound spurring Makar to finally track down his wife's killers.

2013 · 44m
Starring Aleksandr Shevchenko, Aleksey Sekirin, Dmitriy Brusnikin
Director Vyacheslav Lavrov

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    Episode 1
    Schmidt, scientific director of the Institute of Ethnography, enlists the detectives. His colleague, an expert on Old Slavic pagan cults, was killed during a robbery at his dacha. Schmidt asks to find a statuette stolen by robbers, the so-called Bryusov mermaid. Makar and Sergey begin an investigation and almost immediately come to the conclusion that the mermaid's abduction was not spontaneous.
    44 min
  • EPISODE 2
    Episode 2
    A witness to the murder of Silbert, a young man living next door, is called up for identification by the morgue. Makar rather quickly manages to catch the witness in a lie, and now all the threads of the investigation are lost.
    44 min
  • EPISODE 3
    Episode 3
    Makar arrives in the village of Omuty near Rybinsk and finds out that the alleged killers are the Skovorod brothers. The mermaid that the brothers hunted for turned out to be a simple piece of wood created by a local woodcarver.
    44 min
  • EPISODE 4
    Episode 4
    By the time Sergei and the operatives rush into the house of the Skovorod brothers, two are already dead. Sergey reports on the current state of affairs of Makaru and things become increasingly confusing.
    44 min

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Cast & Crew

  • A‌S
    Aleksandr Shevchenko
    Actor
  • A‌S
    Aleksey Sekirin
    Actor
  • D‌B
    Dmitriy Brusnikin
    Actor
  • K‌T
    Konstantin Tret'yakov
    Actor
  • S‌K
    Sergey Koleshnya
    Actor
  • S‌T
    Sergey Tezov
    Actor
  • N‌G
    Natalia Gudkova
    Actor
  • L‌K
    Lidia Kuznetsova
    Actor
  • V‌L
    Vyacheslav Lavrov
    Director
  • V‌R
    Vlad Riashyn
    Producer
  • D‌L
    Daria Lavrova
    Producer

About

Whirlpool of Other People's Wishes

Crime

Makar lost the love of his life. Fifteen years later, he still cannot accept her death and, when he accidentally bumps into a witness from her inquest, it opens up an unhealed wound spurring Makar to finally track down his wife's killers.

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Released
2013
Rated
16+

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  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahrain
  • Botswana
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Cape Verde
  • Egypt
  • Eswatini
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Guinea-Bissau
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  • Niger (English)
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  • Qatar
  • Saudi Arabia
  • South Africa
  • Sri Lanka
  • Tajikistan
  • Turkmenistan
  • Uganda
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Zimbabwe

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  • Cambodia
  • Fiji
  • 香港 (廣東話–繁體)
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  • 日本
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • 澳門 (廣東話–繁體)
  • Malaysia (English)
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  • Singapore
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  • Turkmenistan
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