Back to My Roots (Season 1)

Back to My Roots (Бедные Абрамовичи, 2023) is a Russian comedy series you can watch online on iFILM. In the heart of Moscow, right next to a synagogue, four generations of one Jewish family share a single apartment — and almost none of them keep much of the old faith anymore.

Boris sells pork to make a living and happily eats it too, never quite getting his business off the ground. His son David is embarrassed by his heritage and hides it from his friends. His wife Alla has no clue she has become the very stereotype of a Yiddish mother. Only ancient Grandma Musa still holds the line. Then, while Boris is fleeing his debt collectors, a lightning bolt knocks him flat — and he wakes up face to face with the ghost of Haim, a cranky long-dead ancestor. Centuries back, Haim's terrible sin brought a curse down on the whole clan, and Boris is the only one who can lift it.

The humor here is warmly Jewish and a little chaotic, the kind where a family blow-up and a chat with a poltergeist land in the same breath. Gera Sandler, Semyon Strugachyov and Anna Banshchikova carry the cast. It clicks for anyone who loves comedies about big, loud relatives who laugh at themselves first. Stream Back to My Roots (2023) online on iFILM.