Дылды: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Mikhail Kovalev, the protagonist, is a talented and successful coach of a Super League men's volleyball team. He is pretty short but compensates it with bad temper and aggressive behavior. He lives large and often drops his girlfriends whom he treats like sex objects. After his another escapade he is confronted by the new president of the Volleyball Federation, who is a woman. As a result, he is fired from the big sports. Now to have a chance to return, he has to make a university women's team the winner of a tournament in his provincial hometown. Such is a condition his mother set to him, a despotic and autocratic woman who used to be a famous volleyball player and the first coach of the current president of the Volleyball Federation. Mikhail has to change and learn to respect girls, accept their problems and stop treating them as sexual objects.

Series details

• Title: Дылды
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Russian
• Genres: Comedy, Sports
• Premiere date: 2019-10-07
• Final broadcast date listed: 2022-09-01
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: СТС
• Network country: Russian Federation
• Typical episode runtime: 24 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 44039
• IMDb ID: tt13290612
• TVDB ID: 370804

Cast and credited roles

• Павел Деревянко — Михаил Ковалев
• Ангелина Поплавская — Кристина Кузнецова
• Дмитрий Караневский — Алеша
• Дарья Пицик — Леля Некрасова
• Надежда Карпова — Таня Мошкина
• Мария Тухарь — Даша Борисова
• Isabelle Eidlen — Рита Локтева
• Дарья Урсуляк — Ирина Константиновна Шевченко
• Татьяна Орлова — Валентина Павловна Ковалева
• Евгения Тремасова — Таисия Гараева
• Юлия Макарова — Алиса Лебедева
• Анна Невская — Наталья, мама Кристины

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2019-10-07; final listed air date 2019-11-07; episode order: 21.
• Season 2: premiered 2021-03-01; final listed air date 2021-04-01; episode order: 21.
• Season 3: premiered 2022-08-08; final listed air date 2022-09-01.

Source and licence

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