Under the Thumb (Season 1)

Under the Thumb (Pod kablukom, 2014) is a Russian family drama you can watch online on iFILM. Kostya has it easy. A comfortable career in advertising, a fiancee who has just said yes — life feels settled. Then his father dies, and in a single day the comfort is gone.

What he inherits is more than a company. The family business — a women's footwear factory — comes attached to a household of relatives who have always let a man fix their problems. And Kostya is a poor fit for the job. He barely makes time for his fiancee Sonya and their daughter Marusya, rarely calls his mother, and hardly speaks to the daughter from his first marriage. The business never interested him. Loss forces the issue: he stops drifting, takes the helm of the factory, and slowly becomes the support every woman around him needs. Ilya Lyubimov plays the late coming-of-age without melodrama, alongside Vladimir Menshov and Anna Banshchikova. Director Aleksandr Kirienko tells a steady story of a man circumstances finally push into adulthood. Stream Under the Thumb online on iFILM.