“We are all in the blood of Rita Gracheva”: a series about a woman whose sadistic husband cut off her hands was released

The role of Margarita Gracheva was played by actress Anna Glaube. Photo: kino-teatr.ru

The drama series directed by Sarik Andreasyan, “Is It Your Own Fault?”, premiered in the Ivi online cinema. All 7 episodes were released to the service on the same day.

The series tells the chilling story of Margarita Gracheva, a resident of Serpukhov, who in 2017 was taken to the forest by her sadistic husband Dima and cut off both of her hands with an ax. Because she wanted to divorce him. The script is based on Margarita Gracheva’s own book, “Happy Without Arms.” A true story of love and atrocities”, which was published by the publishing house “Komsomolskaya Pravda” and became a bestseller.

Margarita Gracheva in the studio of Radio “Komsomolskaya Pravda”.

Photo: Victor GUSEINOV

The action of the series develops simultaneously in several chronological planes: the viewer sees the lovers Rita (Anna Glaube) and Dima (Igor Tsaregorodtsev), who look at each other tenderly, kiss, get married, when suddenly these romantic scenes give way abruptly to planes. where the husband takes his bleeding beloved to the hospital; He wanted to punish his wife, but he didn’t want her to die. When the doctor asks who did this, Rita, barely alive, says: “Husband… With an axe…”

Poster for the series “Is it your fault?”

The key conflict of the series is indicated in its title: actually, after this tragedy, Rita Gracheva more than once heard ordinary people argue that perhaps she herself provoked her husband. This note from the first episode is set in a scene filmed in the real studio of Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda. According to the plot, the presenters (the real presenter of Radio “KP” Ivan Pankin and actress Anna Pereverzeva) talk with the guest, journalist Mark Novikov (Dmitry Vlaskin), who believes that women’s behavior often turns into the root cause of male aggression, and society passes sentences without trial. “A half-naked woman walking alone in the middle of the night is much more likely to get into trouble, not because of how she is dressed, but because she is sure that she lives in a civilized society where no one really cares about her. erect nipples,” Novikov’s rant goes. After the incident with Gracheva, supporters of the theory of provocative women will have to realize that part of the blame for what happened lies with them.

Actress Anna Glaube in the television series “Are You To Blame?” Photo: kino-teatr.ru

Early reviews indicate that Sarik Andreasyan’s series turned out to be very catchy and entertaining, no matter how cynical it may seem. “Have you started watching “It’s Your Own Fault”? and it is very tense,” writes a viewer on the kino-teatr.ru portal. – It seems that you know the story of Margarita Gracheva, but still my soul is somewhat restless. And this suggests that the authors knew how to correctly approach the plot and how to present it.” “It’s scary that Rita was crippled by a loved one and not by a maniac,” shares a user of the Otzovik website.

The series also starred Olga Kabo, Maria Mironova, Olga Smirnova, Vadim Andreev and others.

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Let us remember that this terrible story has a brilliant ending: Margarita Gracheva found the strength to continue living. Dmitry was sentenced to 14 years of strict regime.

Doctors managed to sew one hand back on and the other was replaced with a prosthesis. She married: her husband Maxim replaced her children with a father and the couple had a son together. The young woman has become a symbol of the fight against domestic violence. Her courage and desire to help others are striking: when Roman Kostomarov lost his hands, she turned to him with words of support.