{{Short description|Russian-Ukrainian television series}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}} {{Infobox television | image = The Sniffer.jpg | caption = | native_name = {{Infobox name module|uk|Нюхач}} | genre = [[Detective fiction]] | creator = [[Artyom Litvinenko]] | writer = {{plainlist| * Artyom Litvinenko * [[Andriy Babik]] }} | director = Artyom Litvinenko | starring = {{plainlist| * [[Kirill Käro]] * [[Ivan Oganesyan]] * Mariya Anikanova * [[Nina Gogaeva]] * [[Nikolai Chindyajkin]] * Aleksey Zorin * [[Oleksiy Khilskyi]] }} | composer = Nikita Moisyeyev | country = [[Ukraine]] | language = Russian | num_series = 4 | num_episodes = 32 | list_episodes = | executive_producer = {{plainlist| * [[Andriy Rizvanyuk]] (season 1) * [[Maksym Asadchyy]] (season 2) }} | producer = [[Victor Mirsky]] | editor = Vladimir Zapryagalov | cinematography = {{plainlist| * [[Andrey Lisetskiy]] (season 1) * [[Graham Frake]] (season 2) * Anton Fursa }} | runtime = 49–54 minutes | company = [[Film.UA]] | channel = [[ICTV (Ukraine)|ICTV]], [[Channel One Russia|1TV]] | first_aired = {{start date|2013|11|11}} | last_aired = {{end date|2019}} }}
'''''The Sniffer''''' ([[Russian language|Russian]] and {{langx|uk|Нюхач|Nyukhach}}) is a Russian-language detective series produced and shot in Ukraine by FILM.UA Television, created, co-written, and directed by [[Artyom Litvinenko]].<ref>[http://video.telekritika.ua/show/intervu/1484-artem_litvinenko_mirskiij_uvidel_vo_mne_a_ia_-_v_nem_13.05.2013 Видеоинтервью Артёма Литвиненко]</ref>
==Premise== The show is about a man, known as the Sniffer, who has an unusually sensitive [[olfaction|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.<ref name=ap>{{cite web|title=The Sniffer|url=https://www.amazon.com/The-Sniffer/dp/B01DEFZPXY|website=Amazon.com|accessdate=7 September 2016}}</ref>
==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 (Ukraine)|ICTV]] and began airing in Russia on 16 December 2013, for [[Channel One Russia|1TV]]. By 2014, the series had been sold in sixty countries.<ref name="hr">{{cite web|last1=Holdsworth|first1=Nick|title=MIPTV: Original Ukrainian Crime Format 'The Sniffer' Sells to France|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/miptv-original-ukrainian-crime-format-694105|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|accessdate=7 September 2016|date=7 April 2014}}</ref>
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]]''.<ref name=hr/>
In 2016, [[Amazon.com|Amazon]] added the first season to their [[List of Amazon.com products and services#Amazon Prime|Amazon Prime]] lineup.<ref name=ap/>
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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Нюхач 3|url=http://www.vokrug.tv/product/show/nyuhach._3_sezon|website=Вокруг ТВ|accessdate=1 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Kirill Kyaro Sniffed The Third Time|url=http://kino-teatr.ru/kino/news/y2017/1-31/10806|website=Кино-Театр|date=31 January 2017 |accessdate=1 June 2017}}</ref>
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== {{Unreferenced section|date=June 2024}} * [[Brainstorm (Latvian band)|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 (band)|Onuka]] — "Time" * Wacky Room — "Take Me" * TEEEL — "Wait Is Over" * Dmitry Snezhko — "Heart Mate"
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|3326054}} * [http://film.ua/en/production/filmsandseries/projects/219 ''The Sniffer''] — official page at FILM.UA site
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