Trace (TV series)


Trace is a Russian crime drama television series created by Konstantin Ernst about employees of a fictional government agency called the "Federal Expert Service". The show was initially broadcast on Channel One from 3 September 2007 to 25 August 2011. Since 5 September 2011, the show been broadcast on 5TV.
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Premise

The show tells the story of the Federal Expert Service, a new governmental agency created by the MVD to solve important criminal cases. The goal of the FES is to bring together specialists in various areas such as software development, ballistics, forensics and investigations to combat crime. The FES has experts in a wide array of fields at its disposal, and as such, it is tasked with investigating highly complex and intricate criminal cases. Launched as an experiment, the FES trains young professionals and it assists other governmental organizations as the FSB and MVDs in solving crimes. There have been numerous cases of Russian citizens requesting assistance from the FES, because they were unaware that the organization was fictional. The Press Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Primorsky Krai asked residents to ignore scammers posing as employees of the FES.

Creators

  • General Producer — Alexander Levin
  • Executive Producer — Boris Kokin
  • Directors — Vsevolod Aravin, Yury Kharnas
  • Chief Editor — Alexander Shuravin
  • Film Directors — Armen Aruryunyan-Eletsky, Petr Krotenko, Salavat Vakhitov, Kamil Zakirov and others.
  • Writers — Alexander Shuravin, Anastasiya Demidova, Alexey Demidov, Pavel Peskov, Kirill Pletner, Vasily Koryakin, Darya Kokorina and others.

Cast

  • Olga Koposova — Galina Rogozina, Police Colonel, MD, The Head of FES
  • Vladimir Tashlikov — Nikolai Kruglov, Major Police Senior Officer, Deputy Head of FES
  • Anna Dankova — Valentina Antonova, The Medical Examiner
  • Vladimir Sveshnikov — Peter Romashin, professor and Medical Examiner
  • Yevgeny Kulakov — Ivan Tikhonov, programmer, biologist and The Head of The Computer Department
  • Olga Zeyger — Tatyana Belaya, ballistics, Lieutenant / Captain of Police, detective
  • Pavel Shuvaev — Sergey Maysky, Major of GRU, Senior Officer. Biker.
  • Tatyana Isakova — Daria Maximova, programmer, chemist
  • Andrey Lavrov — Constantine Kotov, Police Captain, detective
  • Sergey Pioro — Igor Shustov, Police Captain, ballistics, detective
  • Georgy Teslya-Gerasimov — Konstantin Lisitsyn, Major Police Senior Officer
  • Oleg Osipov — Sergey Belozerov, programmer, biologist
  • Olga Nedovodina — Ekaterina Gordeeva, Major Police Senior Officer
  • Anastasia Gruzdeva — Alla Semenchuk, Assistant
  • Elena Golovisina — Elena Shustova, Senior Police Lieutenant, programmer, the wife of Igor Shustov
  • Julia Vaishnur — Julia Sokolova, The Captain of Police, detective
  • Anastasia Gulimova — Oxana Amelina, Senior Police Lieutenant, programmer
  • Oleg Valkman — Boris Selivanov, medical examiner, a former plastic surgeon
  • Stanislav Erklievskiy — Paul Granik, Captain of Police, detective
  • Ruslan Sasin — Andrew Kholodov, Police Captain, programmer
  • Nina Gogaeva — Margarita Vlasova, Police Captain, detective
  • Sergey Kovalenko — Stepan Danilov, Captain of Police, detective
  • Vladislav Malenko — Roman Aristov, Major Police Senior Officer
  • Alexandra Popova — Olga Dunayeva, Senior Lieutenant of Police, detective
  • Marianna Kataeva — Alyona, Office Manager.
  • Sergey Lavigin — Andrei Romanov, trainee, an employee of FES
  • Elena Lander — Vika
  • Alexey Kulichkov — Alexei Vinogradov, Police Captain, an employee of FES
  • Elena Nikitina — Victoria Gromova, programmer, replaces Ivan Tikhonov
  • Oleg Zhiritskiy — Valery, trainee, an employee of FES
  • Irina Medvedeva — Daria Gordeeva, Laboratory Assistant, replaces Ivan Tikhonov
  • Nikolay Vinogradov — Captain of FES
  • Valeria Skorokhodova — Anna Shmeleva, Police Captain, ballistics
  • Vladimir Smirnov — Andrey Morozov, Senior Police Lieutenant, programmer
  • Vsevolod Grinevskiy — Ilya Danilov, detective
  • Ekaterina Pilipenko — Olga Gorokhova, Senior Lieutenant of Police, detective
  • Sergey Batrak - Bubnov, expert on antiques
  • Elena Khlibko — Taisya Kaplevich, witness during interrogation
  • Mariya Fomina — Varya Golinskaya

Production

The filming process is intense: six episodes are shot at once. In the first months of the project, shooting could be up to 18 hours per day. Later on, the shooting time was reduced to an average of 12 hours per day. Many actors, including lead actors, felt they were overworked, and left the project. By Episode 450, 3500 actors had appeared on the show.
Several sets have been created for the show such as a laboratory, a meeting room, a futuristic office, a morgue, and an interrogation room.

Awards and nominations

TEFI Awards:
  • 2009 Best TV series
  • 2011 Best TV series
  • 2012 Best Director of TV film / series
Prize of The Association of Professional Producers of Film and Television in TV-Movie:
  • 2014 Best TV series
  • 2015 Best TV series
  • 2019 — special prize "for realizing a producer's dream"