Love of the Soviet Union

Love of the Soviet Union (2024) is a Russian historical melodrama you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Nikita Vysotsky, Dmitry Iosifov, and Ilya Lebedev, it stars Angelina Strechina as Galina Kovrova — a stage and screen actress who became a national icon before the war, loved by ordinary audiences and high-ranking officials alike, with Stalin himself counted among her admirers.

The film runs 148 minutes and spans three decades of lives lived at the edge of history. This is the generation that arrived too late for the revolution and just in time for the catastrophe of the 1940s — their ambitions, their loves, and their loyalties all tested by something none of them chose. Roman Vasiliev, Kirill Kuznetsov, Alyona Babenko, Igor Petrenko, and Roman Madyanov form an ensemble built for the scope of the story.

At its core this is not a film about glory but about what glory asks of people — and what survives betrayal and loss when love was supposed to last. Stream Love of the Soviet Union (2024) online on iFILM.