''The Sniffer'' (
Russian
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and uk, Нюхач, Nyukhach) is a Russian-language detective series produced and shot in Ukraine by FILM.UA Television, created, co-written, and directed by
Artyom Litvinenko.
Premise
The show is about a man, known as The Sniffer, who has an unusually sensitive
sense of smell
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In humans, it ...
that allows him to investigate crimes by detecting and distinguishing trace amounts of various substances. He works alongside his childhood friend, Viktor Lebedev, an officer in the Special Bureau of Investigations.
Cast and characters
*
Kirill Käro
Kirill Valeryevich Käro (russian: Кири́лл Вале́рьевич Кя́ро; born 24 February 1975) is a Russian-Estonian actor. He is best known for playing the lead character in 32 episodes of '' The Sniffer'' (2013–2017), as George ...
as The Sniffer
*
Ivan Oganesyan as Col. Viktor Lebedev
* Mariya Anikanova as Yulia
*
Nina Gogaeva as Tatyana Voskresenskaya
*
Nikolai Chindyajkin
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Agnė Grudytė (born 9 July 1986) is a Lithuanian actress and TV presenter.
Biography
Grudytė was born on 9 July 1986 in the city of Šiauliai, Lithuanian SSR, but periodically stayed with relatives in the village of Kaltinėnai. In kindergart ...
as Irina Nordin
* Viktor Shchur as SBR employee
* Denis Martynov as Gena
Production
The series premiered on 11 November 2013 on the Ukrainian TV channel
ICTV and began airing in Russia on 16 December 2013, for
1TV. By 2014, the series had been sold in sixty countries.
Even before its premiere, the series was officially renewed for a second season, with eight new episodes. The second season opened on 1TV on 5 October 2015, with cinematography by Graham Frake, who had previously been head of photography for ''
Downton Abbey
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[
In 2016, ]Amazon
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added the first season to their Amazon Prime
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lineup.[
By 31 January 2017, filming of the third season was completed. Like the first two seasons, the third season consists of eight episodes, which were shot over the course of six months.]Netflix
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and the third season was later added. As of 2021, Netflix no longer carries the series.
References
External links
*
''The Sniffer''
— official page at FILM.UA site
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2010s Ukrainian television series
2013 Ukrainian television series debuts
Police procedural television series
Detective television series
Ukrainian television series
Channel One Russia original programming
Russian-language television shows
2010s science fiction television series
Fictional portrayals of police departments in Ukraine