Yura the Janitor

Yura the Janitor (2023) is a Russian comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Vitaly Dudka. Photographer Roma loses his Moscow job and reluctantly returns to his hometown of Ufa — nowhere near the career trajectory he had in mind.

There he stumbles into Yura, a cheerful, guileless janitor who got conned out of his savings. To scrape together some cash, Roma shoots him like a magazine cover star, photoshops the image onto a glossy front page, and posts it online. It goes viral overnight. Suddenly Yura is famous, Roma is the man who made him, and neither of them is ready for what that means. Anton Kuznetsov and Denis Vlasenko play off each other well — cynical operator versus pure-hearted innocent, both getting more than they bargained for. Stream Yura the Janitor online on iFILM.