The White Guard
GenreHistorical drama
Created by
  • Marina Dyashenko
  • Sergei Dyashenko
  • Sergei Snezhkin
  • Based on the works of
  • Mikhail Bulgakov
Written byMikhail Bulgakov
Directed by
  • Sergei Snezhkin
Starring
Country of originRussia
Original languageRussian
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes4
Production
Running time65 mins
Production companies
Original release
Network
Release3 March (2012-03-03) –
4 March 2012 (2012-03-04)

The White Guard (Russian: Белая гвардия, romanized: Belaya Gvardiya) is a Russian television series that based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel, The White Guard.

Plot

The film tells about the arduous years of the Russian Civil War and portrays the fate of the Turbin family, which falls into a cycle of sad events of the winter of 1918-1919 in Kiev.

The historical background of the film is the fall from power of Ukrainian Hetman Skoropadsky, the capture of Kiev by Ukrainian People's Republic troops, and their subsequent flight under the blows of the Red Army.

The protagonist Alexei Turbin is a military physician and has seen and experienced a lot during the three years of the First World War. Like tens of thousands of other Russian officers after the Russian Revolution, he finds himself in a situation of complete uncertainty in both political and private life. Many of them go to the service of Hetman Skoropadsky and his moderate regime under the German protectorate since they consider it a lesser evil to the Red Terror that has been noted in Kiev against the officers and the intelligentsia by the Bolsheviks. However, Germany loses the war, Skoropadsky flees with the Germans, and a few Russian officers and junker (cadets) remain the only force that can stand in the way of Symon Petliura's followers from coming to Kiev.

Cast

It was written by Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko, and Sergey Snezhkin.[1] It was directed by Sergei Snezhkin. The screenplay was by Sergei Machilskiy.

The film was shot in St. Petersburg and Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast, with the help of Lenfilm studios.[2]

Reception

The series has received negative comments from all sides, with the alterations of Bulgakov's novel and the actors' acting skills being particularly criticized.[3]

The Ukrainian Culture Ministry decided not to issue distribution licenses for the series and considered it to "show contempt for the Ukrainian language, people and the state," and "some facts are distorted to benefit Russia."[4]

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