Synopsis
Barvikha (2009) is a Russian teen drama series you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Yevgeny Lavrentyev, Vladislav Kaptur, and Ilya Naishuller. The school is in the Moscow suburb of the same name — the kind of address that comes with assumptions attached.
One class, two worlds. The local kids — children of people who summer abroad, drive new cars, and settle problems by phone — share a classroom with teenagers who got there on different terms. Anna Khilkevich, Ravshana Kurkova, and Lyanka Gryu lead a cast of characters who are all, in different ways, trying to figure out who they are when the money or the lack of it stops making the decision for them.
The series doesn't soften the edges. These teenagers are capable of generosity and of cruelty, sometimes in the same episode, and the show is honest enough not to arrange them neatly by wealth. Stream Barvikha (2009) online on iFILM.
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