Escape (Season 1)

Escape (Pobeg, 2010) is a Russian criminal thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Construction engineer Alexei Chernov robs a bank. Deliberately. Calmly. Because he needs a prison sentence — specifically the one that puts him inside the same facility outside Moscow where his brother Kirill sits on death row.

Kirill was convicted of killing a government minister. Alexei is certain he was framed. The two brothers meet behind bars, and Alexei starts working on a plan to break Kirill out — navigating cellmates with their own agendas, guards who are harder to fool than they look, and a woman whose involvement could unravel everything. Nodar Siradze and Ekaterina Klimova lead the cast; the series was directed by Andrei Malyukov and Vyacheslav Nikiforov.

Viewers who know Prison Break will recognize the architecture — but the Russian setting changes the texture entirely. The corruption runs differently here, and so does the desperation. Stream Escape (2010) online on iFILM.