Poor people (Season 1)

Poor People (2016) is a Russian comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Zhanna Kadnikova and starring Dmitry Lysenkov, Olga Buzova, Alexander Adabashyan, and Alisa Grebenshchikova.

The title nods to Dostoevsky, and the protagonist lives up to it: a well-read but chronically broke St. Petersburg intellectual who shares a communal flat and earns his living as a ghostwriter. His latest contract is writing an autobiography for TV celebrity Olga Buzova — in her voice, on her terms. A man who quotes 19th-century literature for a living has to produce content for a woman whose audience runs to millions. The gap is the joke. Stream Poor People (2016) online on iFILM.