Synopsis
Na Nozhakh (At Daggers Drawn, 1998) is a Russian period drama you can watch online on iFILM. Based on a late novel by Nikolai Leskov, it opens as two young visitors from the capital disturb the drowsy routine of a small county town.
Once they arrive, the orderly life of this outwardly respectable society starts to crack. Beneath the good manners sit conspiracies, other people's money, borrowed ideals, and a calculating meanness that's hard to tell apart from genuine nobility. Love sits right beside death, and grand speeches about the common good often mask plain self-interest. Director Alexander Orlov builds a crowded panorama in which nearly every character is playing a double game.
The large ensemble brings together Irina Rozanova, Nikolai Dobrynin, Olga Drozdova, Alexander Feklistov and Elena Mayorova. Leskov wrote his "nihilists" as forerunners of the upheavals that would strike Russia a century later, and the series carefully follows that thread. A slow, literary watch for anyone fond of Russian classics on screen. Stream Na Nozhakh (1998) online on iFILM.
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