Tatiana (film) (A Different Channel)

Renko: Tatiana is the name of the eighth season of the American television series Renko, based on the Arkady Renko novel Tatiana by Martin Cruz Smith and premiered on MBN on July 6, 2017 and will conclude on August 24, 2017. The season consists of 8 episodes and airs Thursdays on 10:00 PM ET.

Cast and characters

Main cast

• Gary Sinise as Police Senior Investigator Arkady Renko, a veteran detective who has survived everything from the height of the Soviet Union to perestroika to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of the new Russia and Vladimir Putin but not without sustaining some scars along the way
• Gal Gadot as Tatiana Petrovna, the investigative journalist whose death is the main driving force of the plot
• Patrick Dempsey as Alexi Grigorenko, the son and heir presumptive of an assassinated oligarch who seeks to assert his claim over his father's business empire
• Ted Danson as Maxim Dal, a poet who had a relationship with Tatiana and is eager, sometimes too eager, to help Renko in investigating her murder
• Jim Parsons as Police Sergeant Victor Orlov, Renko's partner in investigating police cases
• Cameron Boyce as Zhenya, a teenage chess hustler who is basically Renko's adopted son in all but name

Recurring cast

• Olga Kurylenko as Anya Rudenko, a journalist who lives in the apartment across the hall from Renko's and sometimes sleeps in his bed
• Yvan Attal as Joseph Bonnafos, a Swiss interpreter whose notebook of transcripts becomes the key to the entire investigation
• Ken Davitian as Ivan "Ape" Beledon, a veteran gangster and oligarch who specializes in the transportation of "hard drugs"
• Gillian Anderson as Valentina Shagelman, an expert in acquiring insolvent banks who creates a construction empire through the proceeds of selling said banks and in her husband's name
• Aziz Ansari as Abdul Khan, a Chechen native who goes from rebel to automobile smuggler to hip-hop artist
• Bonnie Wright as Lotte Sternberg, a university student and chess player who befriends Zhenya and eventually helps to translate the mysterious notebook
• Reggie Lee as Police Lieutenant Stasov, the officer in charge of investigating crimes in Kaliningrad
• Bruno Ganz as "The Butcher", a butcher in Kaliningrad who serves the local hotels and drives a van with a plastic smiling pig on top

Others

• Stephen Fry as Sergei Obolensky, the editor of the magazine where Tatiana worked before her untimely death
• Alan Alda as Prosecutor Zurin, Renko's boss in the police
• Peyton List as Svetlana, Tatiana's apartment neighbor
• Peter Capaldi as Professor Emeritus Kunin, a linguistics expert who befriended Renko when he was arrested back in the days of the Soviets and is the first person whom Renko hopes could decipher Bonnafos' notebook
• Michael Gambon as Vladimir Sternberg, Lotte's grandfather and an elderly painter whose favorite (and only) subject was Stalin and, later on, Russian village scenes
• Ayelet Zurer as Ludmila Petrovna, Tatiana's sister