MIPCOM Spotlight: Russia Television and Radio/Sovtelexport

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Sovtelexport, which distributes content from Russia Television and Radio (RTR) and other producers, has a number of historical dramas on offer, including Ekaterina. Pretenders.

In the series, the rule of the mighty Ekaterina the Great is threatened as numerous pretenders appear with claims to the throne.

Also in the way of historical drama, Godunov looks at the Russian statesman Boris Godunov’s rise to power after the death of Ivan the Terrible. Sovtelexport is also presenting the movie One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (working title), based on the novel by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn about survival in a Soviet labor camp. “Every year, the RTR catalog is being replenished by the best and most successful local productions,” says Julia Matyash, director of Sovtelexport.

She adds, “Our mission has always been to introduce the best Russian TV products to the world.”