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The Chosen (“Избранник”)
DreamCast & Solution to Cultural Context
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Key Characters*
Character Age Role Occupation Candidate I Candidate II
Oleg Sokolov 47 Protagonist Business person, construction Charlie Hunnum Dougray Scott
Valeriy Burtsev 69 Antagonist Governor Brendan Gleeson Alec BaldwinMikhail Vodyanov 48 DC Federal Inspector Lars Mikkelsen Jonathan BanksZhanna Parusova 47 Antagonist Wife Claire Danes Evangeline Lilly
Svetlana Sokolova 18 DC Daughter Cara Delevingne Elisabeth OlsenAndrey Sokolov 22 DC Son Charlie Cox
Roman Tsyolkovsky 35 DC Political advisor Chris Pratt Benedict Cumberbatch
Ivan Losev 57 DC Acting mayor Paul Giamatti Dougray Scott
Ivan Maximov 55 DC High-ranking friend Dean Norris Bjarne Henriksen
Mikhail Zhilin 48 Antagonist II Oligarch, Utilities Bob Odenkirk Ole Boisen
Igor Kondratiev 59 Antagonist II City Manager Kelsey Grammer Ray Winstone
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* Each character has two alternatives with names of actors leading to their IMDB pages
Oleg Sokolov (47)
Protagonist:
Charlie Hunnum
Dougray Scott
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Valery Burtsev (69):
Antagonist:
Alec Baldwin
Brendan Gleeson
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Mikhail Vodyanov (48)
Main Dynamic Character:
Lars Mikkelsen
Jonathan Banks
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Cultural Context - Solution 1 - Journalist
Foreign journalist who (sometimes) speaks to camera or in a voice-over.
He lives in Russia because:
a. Leads a corruption scandal investigation in one of the Russian regions (possibly hired by an investment bank)
b. writes about political events in the regions and be a social science investigator from a university at the same time
c. Be a staff writer for a paper like The Moscow Times or an analog
In both case he may be a friend with the family of the Main Character (MC) and be close with MC as a professional.
d. He is in love with a Russian girl who wants to go with him to the West. She might be a friend of the MC’s wife - this explains why is is allowed in the family.
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Cultural Context - Solution 2 - Flashback
All story is one big flashback from Russia in 2030 to the present days.
Someone from the MC’s children (preferably his daughter), who lives now in the West. Reading through father’s (scanned) papers and digital photographs she recalls the events in her teenage years (she is 18 when the Season 1 takes place in 2017).
This, on top to the initial solution to the cultural context provides an opportunity to demonstrate a fictional but probable Russia’s future as something that had already happened. And why it happened.
This looks a lot like Better Call Saul: the story is told by one of the main characters, but from the future, which does not look like happy end.
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