Synopsis
Yesenin (2005) is a Russian crime drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Igor Zaytsev. The story opens in 1985: Colonel Alexander Khlystov of the Moscow criminal investigation department receives an old photograph in the mail. It shows the poet Sergei Yesenin, photographed just after his body was taken down from a rope in a Leningrad hotel room in December 1925.
Khlystov is a pathologist by training. Details in that image immediately catch his attention — things the original investigators missed or chose not to pursue. His inquiry pulls the viewer back through Yesenin's life: encounters with Blok and Mayakovsky, travels across America and Europe, a turbulent relationship with Isadora Duncan, and escalating friction with Soviet authorities. Sergei Bezrukov plays Yesenin opposite Konstantin Khabensky, Oleg Tabakov and Gosha Kutsenko.
The series runs two tracks at once — a cold-case investigation and a biographical portrait — and lets each complicate the other. That double structure is what separates it from a straightforward historical biopic. Watch Yesenin (2005) online on iFILM.
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