Even before perestroika, there was a special laboratory at the Institute of Information Technologies in the USSR, where people’s extrasensory abilities were studied, with the aim of explaining them from a scientific perspective. It was there that Nikolai Arbenin and Viktor Stavitsky first met. Their rivalry, which began as a struggle between two men for a woman’s heart, over the years grew into a real “battle of the psychics” — only it takes place not on television, but in real life. Late 1988 – early 1989: a time when psychics packed full halls; they performed live on radio and on central television channels. A time when the confrontation between Nikolai Arbenin and Viktor Stavitsky reaches its climax...

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Cast

Arseniy Gusev

Денис Ставицкий

Mikhail Gorskiy

Миша Зубарев (друг Юры)

Filipp Yankovsky

Николай Арбенин

Fyodor Bondarchuk

Виктор Ставицкий

Oksana Fandera

Вера Чернышова

Galina Polskikh

Анна Владимировна Арбенина (мать Николая и Юрия)

Aglaya Shilovskaya

Настя Уварова (журналистка)

Fyodor Lavrov

Лёня Гузак (администратор Ставицкого)

Evgeny Antropov

Юра Арбенин (брат Николая)

Dmitriy Mukhamadeev

Гена Мальков (телохранитель Ставицкого)

Sergey Zhuravel

Сергей Дмитриевич Патаев (Седой) (криминальный авторитет)

Yuliya Lebedeva

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