The City Above the Head (Season 1)

The City Above the Head (1985) is a Soviet historical drama series you can watch online on iFILM. Directors Sergei Satyirenko and Gennady Pavlov follow engineer Volgin, who drew up blueprints for the Moscow Metro while the Tsar's officials were still in power — and got turned down flat.

The project survived anyway. This is the kind of story late Soviet television handled with quiet confidence: one person's long fight against bureaucratic obstruction, built around character rather than plot machinery. Boris Nevzorov, Lyusyena Ovchinnikova, Alina Pokrovskaya and Valery Barinov lead the cast. Watch The City Above the Head (1985) online on iFILM.