Defendant (Season 1)

Defendant (2019) is a Russian crime drama series you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Maxim Brius. It starts with a premise that shuts down every advantage its hero has: the city's most principled investigator wakes up in a detention cell, charged with murdering his wife and daughter.

Andrei Klimov (Dmitry Palamarchuk) is a senior investigator at the Investigative Committee — the kind of official who turns down bribes from wealthy clients and measures himself against the law rather than the politics around it. He has a tight family and a clear conscience. Then four months vanish from his memory, and the colleagues sitting across from him in the interrogation room are the ones who had reasons to want him gone seven years ago.

Pyotr Rykov, Vladimir Litvinov and Andrei Terentyev round out the cast. The show earns its tension by treating the legal mechanics seriously — the same procedures Klimov once used now hem him in. Stream Defendant (2019) online on iFILM.