Race to Monte Carlo

Race to Monte Carlo (Битва моторов, 2026) is a Russian historical adventure from director Ilya Malanin you can watch online on iFILM. The year is 1908. Motoring enthusiast Andrey Nagel and engineer Dmitry Bondarev set out to manufacture an automobile at scale — not one-off, but in proper production runs. The car would be called the Russo-Balt.

When the project's viability comes under question, Nagel makes a gamble: enter the Monte Carlo Rally and let the car prove itself on the road where it counts. Ivan Yankovskiy and Yura Borisov play the two men at the center; Paulina Andreeva, Aleksey Guskov and Aleksey Rozin fill out the ensemble.

The story is pulled from an actual chapter of early twentieth-century Russian motoring history. Rather than building an invention myth, Malanin focuses on the particular pressure of staking everything on a single race. Stream Race to Monte Carlo (2026) online on iFILM.