Episode 1
Part 1
A historian doing research in Moscow discovers a potential secret about Stalin which leads him into danger as there are those who do not want the secret revealed.
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TV series
Archangel
2005TV-MA1 season6.2 / 10
Stalin ruled with an iron fist... but his death was only the beginning.
Fluke Kelso, a dissipated, middle-aged former Oxford historian, who is in Moscow to attend a conference on the newly opened Soviet archives, receives in his hotel a very unexpected visitor.
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Synopsis
Fluke Kelso, a dissipated, middle-aged former Oxford historian, who is in Moscow to attend a conference on the newly opened Soviet archives, receives in his hotel a very unexpected visitor.
Cast, crew and production details
About Archangel
Cast
Daniel CraigProf. Fluke Kelso
Yekaterina RednikovaZinaida Rapava
Gabriel MachtR. J. O'Brian
Konstantin LavronenkoJosefAlexey DiakovSuvorin
Harry DitsonFrank AdelmanAnna GerasimovaAnna
Avtandil MakharadzeJosef StalinCredits
- Written by
- Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Robert Harris
Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Miniseries
- Episodes
- 2
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
BBC OneUnited Kingdom
BBCUnited Kingdom- BBC Drama GroupUnited Kingdom
- PowerUnited Kingdom
Themes
alternate historybased on novel or bookfamily secretsinvestigative journalistmoscow, russiastalinismstate crimes
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Episode 2
Part 2
Kelso is led unwittingly through murder and intrigue towards his own personal Holy Grail, Joseph Stalin's secret legacy, a legacy that could change the face of Russian history forever.
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