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Streets of Broken Lights (1998)

Streets of Broken Lights poster
Original title
Улицы разбитых фонарей
Directed by
Vladimir Studennikov, Valery Naumov, Vladimir Nakhabtsev, Vitaly Aksyonov
Genre
detective fiction
Country
Russia
Length
16 seasons, 501 episodes
Rated
16+
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 23 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Police detectives in Saint Petersburg investigate crimes in a long-running series. The show follows their work and personal lives across many years.

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What happens

Streets of Broken Lights (Russian: Улицы разбитых фонарей, romanized: Ulitsy razbitykh fonarey) is a Russian criminal drama-detective TV series anthology about police work in Saint-Petersburg. The pilot episode, known as Menty (Russian: Менты, literally "Cops") premiered in 1995, while the initial series ran for 16 nonconsecutive seasons from 1998 to 2019, with 500 episodes released overall and making it the longest crime series in Russia. The series eventually spun off another show, Deadly Force (2000—2005), that featured several characters from the original show. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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