It All Started in Harbin (Season 1)

It All Started in Harbin (2013) is a Russian historical drama you can watch online on iFILM. The story runs across a quarter of a century, from the Russian colony of Harbin in the late 1920s to Leningrad after the war.

At its center is Boris, son of a clerk on the Chinese Eastern Railway, whose life bends with every turn of Soviet history. Danila Kozlovsky takes the lead, with Anna Chipovskaya, Dina Korzun, Vladimir Epifantsev and Irina Rozanova around him. Director Leo Zisman follows a man caught between an exile that won't release him and a homeland that no longer trusts him.

What sets it apart is the setting itself — the émigré world of Harbin, a corner of Russian history the screen rarely visits. Stream It All Started in Harbin online on iFILM.