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Roman Ageev (born January 17, 1974) is a prolific Russian film and theater actor, highly regarded for his rugged screen presence and versatility in portraying both high-ranking officials and complex criminal figures. Born in Polyarnye Zori, he graduated from the Saint Petersburg State Academy of Dramatic Art (class of Semyon Spivak, 1999) and has been a staple of the Youth Theatre on Fontanka for over two decades. Ageev first gained widespread recognition for his role as Alik in Sergey Bodrov Jr.'s cult film Sisters (2001). Since then, he has become one of the most recognizable faces in Russian television, starring in major hits like Chernobyl: Zone of Exclusion (as the enigmatic Derek Fletcher/Dmitry Kinyaev), Nevsky, and the detective drama Realization.
The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as the Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s.[4] Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in east Thailand near the border of Cambodia (somewhere in the Amphoe Mueang Trat district, likely on the mainland north/northeast of the Ko Chang island or on the island itself).[5] The city is home to the Japanese Yakuza, the Chinese Triad, the Russian mafia, the Colombian cartel, the Italian mafia, a wide assortment of pickpockets, thugs, mercenaries, thieves, prostitutes, assassins, and gunmen. The city also has a large Vietnamese refugee population following the Vietnamese refugees exodus after the Communist takeover of Vietnam in 1975. Lagoon Company transports goods for various clients in the American made 80-foot (24 m) Elco-type PT boat Black Lagoon. It has a particularly friendly relationship with the Russian crime syndicate Hotel Moscow. The team takes on a variety of missions—which may involve violent firefights, hand-to-hand combat, and nautical battles—in various Southeast Asian locations, even going as far as Phu Quoc island of Vietnam. When they are not working, the members of the Lagoon Company spend much of their down time at The Yellow Flag, a bar in Roanapur which is often destroyed in firefights.
