Rostov-Father (Season 1)

Rostov-Father (2001) is a Russian dramedy anthology you can watch online on iFILM, retelling classic love stories on the sun-baked streets of Rostov-on-Don.

"Carmen," "Orpheus and Eurydice," "Don Quixote," "Cyrano de Bergerac," "Hamlet" — each episode drops a familiar plot into a modern southern town and wraps it up as one self-contained story. The only thread is the place: endless summer, a high sky, a blue river, and people who are either happy or might have been. The ensemble includes Natalya Gundareva, Sergei Nikonenko and Boris Shcherbakov.

One of Kirill Serebrennikov's early projects, co-directed with Ilya Malkin, it's a loose, wry anthology that lets old stories breathe new air. Stream Rostov-Father (2001) online on iFILM.