The Side Where the Wind Is

The Side Where the Wind Is (1979) is a Soviet family TV film you can watch online on iFILM. Vagram Kevorkov directed this two-part picture, adapted from Vladislav Krapivin's coming-of-age novel.

Teenager Genka Zvyagin crosses paths with Vladik, a blind boy, and the friendship reshapes them both. Around them unfold the small dramas of other kids — some funny, some bruising, none of them sugar-coated. This is Krapivin's world of boyhood loyalty, honor and grown-ups who don't always get it right. Slow, plainly told, and harder-edged than most children's stories dare to be. Stream The Side Where the Wind Is (1979) online on iFILM.