Alexander Durie With over 250 screen adaptations featuring Sherlock Holmes, the fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is one of the most famous characters to have graced a screen.
But few of those adaptations have come from non-English speaking countries.In the new Russian TV series, “Sherlock: The Russian Chronicles,” which transfers Sherlock Holmes to Saint Petersburg in 1889 to hunt down notorious killer Jack the Ripper, international audiences will now get a chance to discover the revered detective through a completely new lens.ZDF Enterprises has just secured global distribution rights for the original series, produced by the Russian streaming service Start and production company Sreda.
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