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Text (2019) is Klim Shipenko's Russian crime drama, adapted from Dmitry Glukhovsky's novel and available to watch online on iFILM. Ilya Goryunov walks free after seven years in prison for drugs he never sold.

Home offers nothing: his mother is gone, his old life erased. Revenge wasn't the plan, but fate drops him in front of Pyotr, the narcotics officer who framed him. The confrontation turns deadly, and Ilya ends up holding his enemy's phone — and with it, all of Pyotr: texts with his parents and his girlfriend Nina, photos, videos, uneasy exchanges with colleagues. A dead man keeps living through a screen. Aleksandr Petrov plays Ilya, Ivan Yankovsky is Pyotr, and Kristina Asmus plays Nina.

Shipenko shapes a near-claustrophobic thriller about how easily you can steal an identity once it all fits inside one phone. The tension comes not from chases but from every new message Ilya has to send as someone who no longer exists. It's harsh, uncomfortable viewing — not a cozy night in, but it grips hard. Stream Text (2019) online on iFILM.