TNT will start showing the miniseries Pereval Dyatlova (Dead Mountain: The Dyatlov Pass Incident) on November 16 at 10:00 p.m. This mystical drama/documentary thriller about the Soviet tragedy of 1959, when a group of students perished under mysterious circumstances while on a hiking trip in the Ural Mountains, will also be available on the PREMIER video service.
TV-3 director Valery Fyodorovich and chief producer Evgeny Nikishov, a pair that received a TEFI award as the best producers of the television season, produced and directed 1-2-3 Production’s Pereval Dyatlova, which was written by Ilya Kulikov, known for his work on the series Zakon Kamennyh Djunglei (Rules of the Stone Jungle), Chernobyl. Zona Otchuzhdeniya (Chernobyl: Zone of Exclusion), Uchitelya (Teachers), Mylodrama (Melodrama), and Politseisky s Ryblyovki (Policeman from Rublyovka).
It stars Pyotr Fyodorov and Maria Lugovaya, and features the young actors Ivan Mulin, Irina Lukina (Kasamara), and Maria Metsel as the Dyatlov hikers, as well as Egor Beroev, Vladimir Simonov, and Alexey Vertkov.
What makes Pereval Dyatlova unique is its seamless fusion of two storylines, the first about KGB Major Oleg Kostin’s investigation into the tragedy, as he looks at all the possibilities of what might have happened. Kostin, a World War II veteran, had lost his family, but gained an unusual ability to see and feel things that are not immediately obvious, a skill that will help him investigate the tragedy in his own, unique way. The second storyline gives a detailed and realistic portrayal of Igor Dyatlov and the other students, their lives at university, preparations for the expedition and the expedition itself.