A single scientific breakthrough turns romance into a business model in The One, a 2022 Russian production directed by Dmitriy Suvorov. Nadezhda Kaleganova and Maksim Ivanov-Marenin lead a cast rounded out by Victor Dobronravov, Anna Dubrovskaya, and Vladislav Vetrov across a story that blends crime, drama, science fiction, and thriller elements.

What is The One about?

A DNA researcher's work on identifying compatible partners becomes the foundation for a new matchmaking service, one that promises certainty in a place where most people expect only guesswork. That premise sets up the tension the story runs on: a method built to remove doubt instead multiplies it, as the people who use the service and the people who built it discover how much they are willing to bend the truth to protect what the discovery has made possible. Genre elements of crime and thriller sit alongside the central science-fiction conceit, giving the drama more than one direction to develop.

About the cast

Nadezhda Kaleganova and Maksim Ivanov-Marenin carry the central relationship at the story's core, with Victor Dobronravov and Anna Dubrovskaya in supporting roles that pull the plot toward its crime and thriller register. Vladimir Vinogradov, Mariya Sokova, Vladislav Vetrov, and Diana Enakaeva complete a cast built to carry a story that moves between the personal and the procedural.

Context & significance

Russian genre television has increasingly mixed speculative science premises with crime-drama structure, and The One's DNA-matchmaking concept fits that pattern by using a science-fiction idea to drive conflicts that play out as thriller and crime plotting. Each episode runs 44 minutes, a length built for serialized pacing rather than a single feature-length arc. Dmitriy Suvorov directs a large ensemble cast across that structure, giving the science premise room to widen into personal and institutional consequences.

Watching The One on Ktime

The One is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing; Persian subtitles are not included for this title. Watching requires logging into a free K-Time account, though the show's page can be read without one. K-Time's Farsi-language platform is built to make titles like this — international genre drama outside the usual English-language slate — easy for Persian-speaking viewers to discover.