Mountain mystery
Based on real events, Russian thriller Pereval Dyatlova (Dead Mountain: The Dyatlov Pass Incident) posits what happened when nine students set out on a ski trek in 1959 and were never seen again. In January 1959, nine students set out on a ski trek across the icy Ural Mountains — but they never reach their destination. When their bodies are discovered a month later, Soviet investigators are left puzzled by what might have happened to them. Their tent was cut open from the inside, they are found in their underwear spread around the camp, some are even partially mangled. Whom or what did they run from? Why did they die, and how? Based on the declassified files of the real case, Russian series Pereval Dyatlova (Dead Mountain: The Dyatlov Pass Incident) follows KGB major Oleg as he arrives in the province to conduct a strictly confidential inquiry. Troubled by his past as a Second World War veteran, he has a sixth sense, and death seems to follow him around as he digs deeper into the mysterious incident. With the help of Katya, the local medical examiner, Oleg is hell-bent on finding the truth. But the more he learns, the more it becomes clear: the reason the students died will never see the light of day. No one can ever know what really happened, except him. Starring Pyotr Fyodorov, Aleksey Bardukov, Ivan Mulin and Mariya Lugovaya, the eight-part series is produced by 1-2-3 Productions for Russian OTT service Premier, with Beta … Continue reading Mountain mystery
