Operation Neman (Season 1)

Operation Neman (Операция «Неман», 2023) is a Russian wartime detective you can watch online on iFILM. The summer of 1944, freshly liberated Belorussia. A hostile radio transmitter is working somewhere behind the front line, and a counterintelligence team gets a single order: find it and shut it down.

The hunt falls to Captain Alyokhin. His target is a sabotage cell codenamed "Neman," gathering the intelligence German command needs to guess where the Soviet army will strike next. The cell answers to an agent named Mishchenko — a man Alyokhin happens to know. The team chases one lead after another, combs through forests and farmsteads, closes in, and every single time Mishchenko slips through their fingers. The clock keeps running. The cast features Alexander Yatsenko, Alexey Kravchenko, and Alexey Makarov.

Director Sergey Vinogradov is less interested in battles than in the painstaking manhunt — interrogations, surveillance, the kind of intelligence work where one mistake can cost a whole front. The story traces back to Vladimir Bogomolov's prose about SMERSH, which makes it a treat for anyone who likes a smart war thriller over endless gunfire. Stream Operation Neman (2023) online on iFILM.