Shadows Disappear at Noon (Season 1)

Shadows Disappear at Noon (1972) is a Soviet multi-part drama series adapted from Anatoly Ivanov's novel — watch all episodes online on iFILM. Directed by Vladimir Krasnopolsky and Valery Uskov, it follows four decades of life in Zeleny Dol, a small village buried in the Siberian taiga, from the early 1920s through the aftermath of the Second World War.

The scope is wide: the rout of White Army units, the first collective farm seasons, men drafted and sent west in 1941, and the years of waiting to see who comes home. Pyotr Velyaminov, Nina Ruslanova, Galina Polskikh and Vladimir Samoylov lead an ensemble that keeps the individual lives visible inside the historical sweep. It is the kind of Soviet television that treated its audience as adults — patient, detailed, built for re-watching.

Stream Shadows Disappear at Noon (1972) online on iFILM.