Cherkizon. New Russia's Hell and Paradise (Season 1)

Watch Cherkizon: New Russia's Hell and Paradise (2025) online on iFILM — a Russian documentary series about the Cherkizovsky market, which in the 2000s was not just a place to buy clothes but the financial engine of one of the country's most powerful private empires.

Built by businessman Telman Ismailov, the market funded Moscow's most extravagant parties, top pop concerts, and the legendary Prague restaurant. Half of Russia got dressed here. The series traces how that one sprawling bazaar became both a symbol of the noughties and a mirror of everything raw and ungoverned about the era.

Stream Cherkizon online on iFILM — a documentary that captures what post-Soviet capitalism actually looked and felt like before the cleanup crews arrived.