Closed Level (Season 1)

Closed Level (Закрытый уровень, 2023) is a Russian sci-fi war series you can watch online on iFILM. A crew of gamers breaks into a private lab and falls into a war with no exit button.

Obsessed with shooters, the friends sneak into a facility building a hyper-realistic combat simulator. Once they jack in, the world around them is indistinguishable from real life. By accident they load into a "closed level" the developers never finished — Nazi-occupied Belarus, 1942. The catch is brutal: here death is permanent, and the war stops behaving like a game. The cast features Denis Nurulin, Arseny Veys, and Artyom Afonasov.

Directed by Anton Rozenberg, the show fuses a gamer setup with the memory of a real war — an unusual hybrid for Russian television. It will land for anyone curious what happens when a generation that knows war only from a screen gets dropped into the real thing. Stream Closed Level (2023) online on iFILM.