Major Grom

Major Grom (2017) is a 29-minute Russian action short you can watch online on iFILM — directed by Vladimir Besedin, it's the first live-action entry in the Bubble Comics universe.

Detective Igor Grom of St. Petersburg stumbles into a bank robbery and stops it himself. Aleksandr Gorbatov leads the cast. The short predates the 2021 feature by four years and reads as a proof-of-concept: one action set-piece, tight editing, no origin-story preamble. If you've seen the full film and want context, or if you're figuring out whether the franchise is worth your time — either way, this is the right starting point.