Synopsis
Forester (Лесник, 2011) is a Russian crime detective series you can watch online on iFILM. Former special-forces soldier Leonid Zubov has traded his weapon for a ranger's uniform, patrolling the taiga around the village of Olkhovka. Quiet work, on the face of it — but the forest hides other people's business as well as any city block.
Poachers, shady timber dealers, outsiders with guns, dirty secrets buried deep in the woods — Zubov and a handful of people he trusts untangle all of it himself, by his own rules. Along the way he pulls his neighbours out of trouble the local police would never touch. The personal thread keeps its grip on him: after his wife's death he shut down, while the village paramedic Vera has fallen for him, and whether he can open up again runs through the whole show. Anatoly Kotenyov plays Zubov and carries the series on his shoulders.
This is solid genre television of the kind where a strong, silent man restores order where the law can't reach. The taiga is filmed until it becomes a character of its own — beautiful and dangerous. It suits fans of unhurried detective stories with a rural flavour. Stream every episode of Forester online on iFILM.
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