Robinson (Season 1)

Robinson (2012) is a Russian naval war drama you can watch online on iFILM. The story opens in 1985, in a small coastal town where three boys — Sashka Robertson, Leshka Balunov and Vovka Titov — dream of becoming submarine officers like their fathers. While the submarine K-963 sails on a secret run toward a NATO exercise zone, the kids play sailors inside an abandoned factory and walk straight into a deadly trap.

Years pass, and the dream survives differently in each of them. The nineties tear up the old rules: a uniform stops meaning prestige, and the boats rust at their moorings. Vovka heads to Moscow and goes into business, Leshka joins the marines, and only Sashka keeps his boyhood promise, tying his life to the sea as a submariner. Director Sergei Bobrov skips the parade-ground heroics for a quieter story about loyalty to yourself when everything is balanced at the edge of the abyss. Stream Robinson online on iFILM.