Cast (both series):
- Nero Wolfe: Donatas Banionis
- Archie Goodwin: Sergey Zhigunov (also Producer)
- Inspector Kramer: Sergey Parshin
- Fritz Brenner: Sergey Migitzko
Series 1 Episodes (2001-2002):
- The Affair With the Cap (Disguise for Murder)
- Poka ya ne umer (Before I Die / Trouble in Triplicate--Pictured to the right)
- Resurrect to Die (Man Alive)
- Flying Gun (Gun with Wings)
- A Voice From the Other Side (The Silent Speaker)
Series 2 Episodes (2005):
- A Gift for Lily (based on "Black Orchids")
- A Last Will of Marko (based on ""Black Mountain")
- Too Many Women (based on "Too Many Women")
- A Mystery of Red Box (based on "The Red Box")
Teleplay written by Vladimir Valutskiy, who had written the 1980s Russian Sherlock Holmes TV series, considered to be one of Russia's all-time TV classics.
Score by Vladimir Dashkevich, who also wrote the score for the Holmes series. He says he found it important for the Wolfe series to feature period music of the 1930s. Nevertheless, he "composed" the opening tune of the Wolfe series by simply playing backwards(!) his own opening tune of the Sherlock Holmes series of the 1980s.
During 2001-2002, A&E and the Russians were shooting Wolfe stories in parallel, although there are no know references to either team discussing the other's efforts.
MORE INFORMATION:
- IMDB: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0368157/
- Links to pictures of Donatas Banionis:
- Links to pictures of Sergey Zhigunov:
Series 1 Screen Captures and fan page
A Russian fan's homepage at includes links to screen captures from Series One: http://nirovulf.narod.ru/
- Wolfe at his desk — http://nirovulf.narod.ru/photo.jpg
- A highly suspicious-looking picture with Wolfe and a young lady (might actually be a picture from the set, rather than a movie scene) — http://nirovulf.narod.ru/photo12.jpg
- The Russian New York — http://nirovulf.narod.ru/photo01.jpg
- Archie at his desk — http://nirovulf.narod.ru/photo03.jpg
- Archie in action — http://nirovulf.narod.ru/photo06.jpg
- Archie in action (again) — http://nirovulf.narod.ru/photo13.jpg
- A very Russian-looking Archie (well, it's Professor Zhigunov) at Rusterman's, I suppose — http://nirovulf.narod.ru/photo09.jpg
![]() The Gun with Wings |
![]() Disguise for Murder Russian: The Affair With the Cap |
![]() Man Alive! Russian: Resurrect to Die |
![]() The Silent Speaker Russian: A Voice From the Other Side |
![]() Before I Die Russian: Poka ya ne umer |
![]() Russian Nero Wolfe Series in Chinese slip case |