Currencies (Season 1)

Currencies (Деньги, 2016) is a Russian crime drama available to watch online on iFILM, based on the true story of the Soviet Union's most notorious counterfeiter. Director Yegor Anashkin. Starring Alexander Astashyonok.

Alexey Barannikov is a talented young scientist who loses everything at once: career, fiancée, his place in Moscow — all gone after a scandal he didn't fully cause. For years he keeps trying to get his inventions registered; the state apparatus turns him away every time. Then, by chance, he witnesses a murder. The dead man was a forger. That one moment tips Barannikov toward a decision the rest of the series is built around. A crime story set against Soviet-era shortages and bureaucratic dead ends, with a central question the show doesn't pretend to answer cleanly. Stream Currencies (2016) online on iFILM.