Synopsis
Casanova (2020) is a Russian retro detective series you can watch online on iFILM. Moscow, 1978, with the city gearing up for the Olympics. A swindler is working the capital: a charming, well-spoken man in his forties who wins the trust of wealthy women "of standing," cleans them out, and vanishes.
The victims all describe him the same way, yet he stays out of reach — one week an army officer, the next a priest, then a dissident poet or a KGB man. He swaps identities like coats. When one of his marks, the deputy chair of a district committee, attempts suicide, the high-profile case lands with police captain Shmakov and senior lieutenant Polina Novgorodtseva. The strangest detail: not one of the conned women holds a grudge against him, and that quirk throws the investigation off worse than any missing clue. Anton Khabarov plays the elusive con artist, with Svetlana Khodchenkova as the detective who starts to see the man behind the charges.
Directed by Kirill Belevich, the show runs on a cat-and-mouse chase and the lived-in texture of stagnation-era Moscow — courtyards, communal flats, phone booths. Once the personal tangles into the case, his old routine goes off-script for the first time. Good pick if you like Soviet-era period detail and a clever antagonist who isn't a villain. Stream Casanova (2020) online on iFILM.
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