Simple Truths (Season 1)

Simple Truths (Prostye Istiny, 1999) is a Russian school drama series you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Vadim Shmelev and Yuri Belenky. The cast includes Tatiana Arntgolts, Anastasia Zadorozhnaya, Anatoly Rudenko and Alexander Ilyin Jr. — most of them early in their careers — alongside Alexei Guskov and Boris Nevzorov as the adults in the room.

The show follows a class of teenagers through the kind of problems grown-ups dismiss as trivial: unrequited crushes, arguments with teachers, report cards doctored before parents can see them. Stream Simple Truths (1999) online on iFILM — a late-nineties teen series that worked because it never tried to be more dramatic than real school life.