Along Unknown Paths

Along Unknown Paths (1982) is a Soviet family fantasy film you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Mikhail Yuzovsky, it stars Roman Monastyrsky alongside screen veterans Tatyana Pelttser, Leonid Kharitonov, and Alexander Filippenko.

City boy Mitya arrives at his grandmother's village for the summer and stumbles into a land of Russian fairy tales — not as a reader, but as a participant. Koschei the Deathless, the Nightingale Bandit, and One-Eyed Likho are real, they are powerful, and they are not going to step aside for a city kid. Baba Yaga, played with straight-faced warmth by Tatyana Pelttser, turns out to be more help than expected. The film plays its premise without a wink — no modern irony, no self-awareness — and that sincerity is what makes it hold up. Stream Along Unknown Paths (1982) on iFILM.