The Sniffer

*The Sniffer*
The Sniffer
Ukrainian	Нюхач
Genre	Detective fiction
Created by	Artyom Litvinenko
Written by	Artyom Litvinenko; Andriy Babik;
Directed by	Artyom Litvinenko
Starring	Kirill Käro; Ivan Oganesyan; Mariya Anikanova; Nina Gogaeva; Nikolai Chindyajkin; Aleksey Zorin; Oleksiy Khilskyi;
Composer	Nikita Moisyeyev
Country of origin	Ukraine
Original language	Russian
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	32
Production
Executive producers	Andriy Rizvanyuk (season 1); Maksym Asadchyy (season 2);
Producer	Victor Mirsky
Cinematography	Andrey Lisetskiy (season 1); Graham Frake (season 2); Anton Fursa;
Editor	Vladimir Zapryagalov
Running time	49–54 minutes
Production company	Film.UA
Original release
Network	ICTV, 1TV
Release	November 11, 2013 –; 2019

The Sniffer (Russian and Ukrainian: Нюхач, romanized: Nyukhach) is a Russian-language detective series produced and shot in Ukraine by FILM.UA Television, created, co-written, and directed by Artyom Litvinenko.^[1]

Premise

The show is about a man, known as the Sniffer, who has an unusually sensitive sense of smell that allows him to investigate crimes by detecting and distinguishing trace amounts of various substances. He works alongside his childhood friend, Viktor Lebedev, an officer in the Special Bureau of Investigations.^[2]

Cast and characters

Kirill Käro as The Sniffer
Ivan Oganesyan as Col. Viktor Lebedev
Mariya Anikanova as Yulia
Nina Gogaeva as Tatyana Voskresenskaya
Nikolai Chindyajkin as General
Aleksey Zorin as Maxim
Agnė Grudytė as Irina Nordin
Viktor Shchur as SBR employee
Denis Martynov as Gena
Oleksiy Khilskyi as Robert

Production

The series premiered on 11 November 2013 on the Ukrainian TV channel ICTV and began airing in Russia on 16 December 2013, for 1TV. By 2014, the series had been sold in sixty countries.^[3]

Even before its premiere, the series was officially renewed for a second season, with eight new episodes. The second season opened on 1TV on 5 October 2015, with cinematography by Graham Frake, who had previously been head of photography for Downton Abbey.^[3]

In 2016, Amazon added the first season to their Amazon Prime lineup.^[2]

By 31 January 2017, filming of the third season was completed. Like the first two seasons, the third season consists of eight episodes, which were shot over the course of six months.^[4]^[5]

Beginning in May 2017, the first two seasons were streamed on Netflix and the third season was later added. As of 2021, Netflix no longer carries the series.

Soundtrack

Brainstorm — "Years and Seconds"
Dmitry Bortniansky — "Concerto No.2 in D major"
George Frideric Handel — "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba", from the oratorio "Solomon"
Lev Kolodub — "Ukrainian Dixieland", performed by the brass quintet Major under the direction of Viktor Slupsky
Onuka — "Time"
Wacky Room — "Take Me"
TEEEL — "Wait Is Over"
Dmitry Snezhko — "Heart Mate"

References

^ Видеоинтервью Артёма Литвиненко
^ ^a ^b "The Sniffer". Amazon.com. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
^ ^a ^b Holdsworth, Nick (7 April 2014). "MIPTV: Original Ukrainian Crime Format 'The Sniffer' Sells to France". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
^ "Нюхач 3". Вокруг ТВ. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
^ "Kirill Kyaro Sniffed The Third Time". Кино-Театр. 31 January 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2017.

External links

The Sniffer at IMDb
The Sniffer — official page at FILM.UA site

[1] Видеоинтервью Артёма Литвиненко

[ap-2] "The Sniffer". Amazon.com. Retrieved 7 September 2016.

[hr-3] Holdsworth, Nick (7 April 2014). "MIPTV: Original Ukrainian Crime Format 'The Sniffer' Sells to France". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 7 September 2016.

[4] "Нюхач 3". Вокруг ТВ. Retrieved 1 June 2017.

[5] "Kirill Kyaro Sniffed The Third Time". Кино-Театр. 31 January 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2017.

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