Back in the USSR (Season 1)

Back in the USSR (2010) is a Russian drama series by Valery Rozhnov that you can watch online on iFILM. The hook is almost cheeky: a businessman sick of having everything drops out of 2010 and lands in April 1975.

Anton is thirty-four with his own bank, a car, an apartment and a woman — and not a flicker of feeling for any of it. He drinks. A friend drags him to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, where a strange man who calls himself Stalker promises an adventure unlike anything he has known. Anton wakes up in the Soviet Union of the seventies, stripped of his money and connections, but handed a chance to feel alive again. Then love finds him there, and going home stops looking like a good idea. The cast is led by Yevgeny Ponasenkov, Polya Polyakova and Marat Basharov.

The nostalgia for vinyl, black-market deals and empty store shelves comes without sugar, and the time-jump plot doubles as a mirror: what does a man actually want once he already owns it all. Stream every episode of Back in the USSR (2010) online on iFILM.