Proklyatie spyaschikh
Season 1
The plot of this thriller is based on unusual works of art. Each of the paintings depicts a sleeping person whose soul is trapped in the canvas. This curse has come to the modern world from a Master Painter who loved his wife to insanity. As she was dying, the Master seized her soul in a portrait with the power of his feelings. This legend inspired businessman Pavel Voronov to acquire a collection of canvases with sleeping people. Photographer Kostya and art critic Agnessa help him with his work. Artist Aleksey Tikhonov, who dreams to continue the work of the Master, also hunts for unusual paintings and learns to include souls in portraits. This story could well remain a legend for art students if it were not for the murder of a famous painter, another fan of "The Sleeping". The crime is handled by the Justice Major and the Investigator for "especially important cases", Irina Shchulyaeva, who makes herself a promise to get to the of the matter.
Where to Watch Proklyatie spyaschikh • Season 1
8 Episodes
- Sluzhanka u kaminaE1
Sluzhanka u kaminaBusinessman Pavel Voronov collects a collection of paintings with sleeping people. According to the legend, the souls of persons depicted on this paintings are enclosed in its canvases. For the first time such a painting was written by a distraught artist: not wishing to loose his dying wife, he imprisoned her soul in the portrait with the power of his feelings for her. Since then, "the sleeping" has a lot of fans but few of them knew that these pictures are cursed and their owners are in mortal danger. - ReplikaE2
ReplikaMajor Shchulyaeva comes to the conclusion that death of artist Ivantsov was not accidental. She finds out that a disciple, a certain Aleksey Tikhonov, often came to see him. Voronov asks Kostya to invite singer Lisa, who was in an ill-fated accident together with the artist, to the nightclub for a generous reward. The girl accepts the invitation and goes to the club, and Voronov's people at that time open her apartment and replace one of the paintings that were stored there. - OlgaE3
OlgaKostya and his partner get into Lera's apartment who used to work as a dancer on Lisa's concerts, and download data from her computer. According to Voronov's order, art critic Agnessa invited to the dinner with him. In conversation, the businessman mentions his interest in the "posthumous painting" - the canvases with dead people which seem sleeping. The woman recalls the picture Olga which was painted with the brush of Ivantsov. - Edgar Po bul pravE5
Edgar Po bul pravVoronov orders his assistant Andrey take a stolen work of art from France to Russia at any cost. Meanwhile, Tikhonov comes to Lisa and finds out that she sold the original painting The Servant to Agnesa replacing it with a replica at home. Soon the canvas stolen from France takes its place in Voronov's collection. Tikhonov begins to work on a new portrait: a homeless boy agrees to pose for him. - Ars longa, vita brevis estE6
Ars longa, vita brevis estAfter another lecture, one of Agnessa Vitalyevna's students shares with her with his experience of studying reproductions with "the sleeping". The art critic first tries to brush aside the annoying student but the young man suddenly attracts her attention to one detail on these canvases: in several paintings created at different times and by different people, there is actually an identical signature. - Varvara BakuninaE7
Varvara BakuninaMajor Shchulyaeva draws attention to a strange sketch in deceased artist's notebook. Against the background of artist's other works, this male portrait looks too simple and careless. The investigator is convinced that this portrait was not painted by Ivantsov. Meanwhile, Tikhonov offers Agnessa a deal: a woman should help him see the Servant in exchange for an expensive and rare canvas. - Lux AeternaE8
Lux AeternaVoronov learns that Agnessa hid from him information about The Servant despite their agreement. An angered collector pounces on woman and shoot her. In the hospital, the art critic ponders the events associated with the fateful canvases, and begins to believe in the gloomy legend of the souls depicted in the portraits. Lisa hastens to destroy the next portrait of the master in the hope that this will stop the curse of the "the sleeping".