Look at Me!

Look at Me! (Smotri na menya!, 2024) is a Russian drama you can watch online on iFILM. The setting is Sverdlovsk in the late 1940s. Nina Levitskaya, once an opera singer and now mother to four, has heard nothing about her husband for almost a year — a party official who vanished without a word.

Word reaches her that Alexander may be in Moscow. With danger closing in and arrest a real possibility, Nina sells off everything the family owns, loads the children into a freight car and heads for the capital. The cargo: what is left of their belongings, a cow that keeps them fed, and a piano. The trip is long and risky — some travelers would rob them, others share unexpected kindness. Aleksandra Ursulyak leads as Nina.

Veteran director Vladimir Grammatikov tells the story of a mother holding her family together on willpower alone, in years when saying too much could cost everything. A quiet, deeply human drama about a journey through fear. Stream Look at Me! (2024) online on iFILM.