ZIG ZAG Gang (Season 1)

ZIG ZAG Gang (Banda ZIG ZAG, 2023) is a Russian historical drama you can watch online on iFILM. The winter of 1941: the ring around Leningrad has closed, the warehouses stand empty, every supply road is cut. The city is slipping away from starvation, with office workers, dependents and children rationed to barely 125 grams of bread a day.

In those very months, a gang takes shape inside the dying city, living off swindles and robbery. Their main trade is forged ration cards — fortunes built on other people's hunger. The crew's name, ZIG ZAG, hid an ugly meaning: "Defenders of German Interests — Banner of Adolf Hitler." Hunting them are investigators forced to chase traitors while buckling under the same famine. Igor Petrenko, Aleksandr Ustyugov and Pavel Trubiner lead the cast.

Director Vitaly Vorobyov skipped the parade-ground war footage for a cramped crime story set against catastrophe, where the line between victim and scum can come down to a bowl of soup. It suits anyone after hard cinema about the siege with none of the heroic gloss. Rated 16+. Stream ZIG ZAG Gang (2023) online on iFILM.