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8.5 4 Seasons • 31 Episodes

The New Guy

Max is the new guy in school, he’s just moved from Moscow and the big city lights where he was at private school, and now he’s the new kid at a local school in a provincial town in Russia. After going to a classmate’s birthday party, he just disappears. The investigation starts to peel layer after layer off not just Max’s life, but the lives of his classmates, revealing secrets that they’d rather keep hidden. Bullying, early drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence all come to light – and not everyone is shocked, but who’s responsible? The New Guy looks at what happens when people you trust turn a blind eye.

Seasons

Top Cast

  • Gleb Kalyuzhny

    Gleb Kalyuzhny

    Maksim Pletnev

  • Anna Demidova

    Anna Demidova

    Sonya

  • Vitaliy Shcherbina

    Vitaliy Shcherbina

    Egor

  • Elizaveta Zaporozhets

    Elizaveta Zaporozhets

    Lera

  • Ivan Rysin

    Ivan Rysin

    Petya

  • Kira Medvedeva

    Kira Medvedeva

  • Sergey Borodinov

    Sergey Borodinov

  • Vasily Simonov

    Vasily Simonov

  • Ekaterina Vinogradova

    Ekaterina Vinogradova

Overview

Max is the new guy in school, he’s just moved from Moscow and the big city lights where he was at private school, and now he’s the new kid at a local school in a provincial town in Russia. After going to a classmate’s birthday party, he just disappears. The investigation starts to peel layer after layer off not just Max’s life, but the lives of his classmates, revealing secrets that they’d rather keep hidden. Bullying, early drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence all come to light – and not everyone is shocked, but who’s responsible? The New Guy looks at what happens when people you trust turn a blind eye.

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