Guests From the Past (Seasons 1–2)

Guests From the Past (2020) is a Russian sci-fi sitcom you can watch online on iFILM. Moscow, 1982. Physicist Matvey Pyotrovsky switches on a homemade time machine, and the blast splits his apartment clean in half.

One half stays put in the eighties with the professor. The other lands in 2020, home to businessman Sergey, his wife Svetlana and their teenage daughter Kristina. Two decades now overlap inside the same walls, so the neighbors are stuck sharing rooms that technically belong to a different year. The fridge is empty one minute, full of imported snacks the next. Meanwhile the inventor's grandson Pavel has waited thirty-eight years for this moment, hoping to rewrite an old tragedy before it repeats.

Yuri Stoyanov anchors the chaos as the deadpan professor, playing a man who built a miracle and got stuck with roommates from the wrong century. Director Vladimir Vinogradov stages the culture clash as a running gag: Soviet shortages bump into mortgages and smartphones. Stream Guests From the Past (2020) online on iFILM.