Half an Hour Before Spring (Season 1)

Half an Hour Before Spring (За полчаса до весны, 2023) is a music biopic you can watch online on iFILM. It follows Vladimir Mulyavin, a working-class kid from Sverdlovsk who shrugs off the teasing of classmates and his mother's objections to chase one thing: a band of his own.

The turn comes far from home. Drafted into a unit in Belarus, Mulyavin wins the barracks over with his guitar, and an amateur army act slowly grows into Pesnyary — the vocal-instrumental group that would tower over Soviet pop by the 1970s. Artyom Volobuev and Gleb Kalyuzhny carry the story of a man who rewired Soviet stage music with Belarusian folk. Three directors — Stepan Korshunov, Oksana Barkovskaya and Kirill Papakul — keep the focus on the songs and one stubborn dreamer rather than a checklist of dates. Stream Half an Hour Before Spring online on iFILM.