Synopsis
The Russian crime series The Chief (Shef, 2012) is available to watch online on iFILM. Police colonel Viktor Rastorguev crossed a powerful official in Moscow, and after that he was never going to be left alone to do his job in the capital. So he relocates to St. Petersburg with his wife Olga and sixteen-year-old son Pavel, taking command of a district police department.
The fresh start does not go as smoothly as he hoped. Rastorguev is an old-school investigator who works clean and sees every case through, but the new city has its own rules and plenty of people who would rather not answer to a principled boss. His family struggles to settle in too. Andrei Chubchenko plays the lead, with Kirill Polukhin, Sergei Mardar and Eldar Lebedev around him.
This is a tight police procedural about an honest detective inside a system where honesty earns no rewards. It suits viewers who like Russian crime shows about the grind of investigative work and the squeeze from above. Stream every episode of The Chief (2012) online on iFILM.
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