Roots (Seasons 1–2)

Roots (2020) is a Russian comedy series you can watch online on iFILM. Dima Korolev — a slick Moscow executive played by Mark Bogatyrev — comes back to his small hometown of Zaleshchinsk after a ten-year gap. The mission: buy out the local cultural centre, level it, and put up a shopping mall. A clean deal, in and out.

It goes sideways immediately. The person he needs to sign the papers turns out to be his ex-girlfriend, who now runs the place and has no intention of selling. His relatives materialise from every direction, louder and more persistent than he remembered, carrying the kind of memories he moved to Moscow to escape. Co-directed by Mark Gorobets and Kirill Vasiliev, with a cast that includes Renat Mukhambaev, Natalya Skomorokhova, Elena Valyushkina, Anton Lapenko and Anna Ukolova. Stream Roots (2020) online on iFILM.