Women's Sentence (Season 1)

Women's Sentence (2022) is a Russian crime drama you can watch online on iFILM, adapted from Maria Voronova's novel. The year is the 1980s, and judge Irina Polyakova is handed the case of a young rock musician accused of a string of murders.

Under Soviet law the verdict could mean execution, and Irina is far from sure the man in the dock is guilty. The court's chairman, Valery — her longtime lover, who keeps promising to leave his wife — talks her into taking it. Two lay assessors, Nadezhda and Natalya, join the bench. As the trial of a killer tied to six dead women unfolds, three very different women — a judge, a teacher and a doctor — find their lives bound to a single sentence.

Beyond the courtroom mystery, the series leans on the texture of 1980s daily life and on the women themselves, each cornered in her own way: a rebellious daughter, an unanswered love, a colleague's contempt. Stream Women's Sentence (2022) online on iFILM.