Synopsis
King & Jester (2023) is a Russian series you can watch online on iFILM — eight episodes that split the difference between music biopic and a horror fairy tale. Director Rustam Mosafir builds a world where rehearsal basements bleed straight into a forest full of sorcerers and the undead.
Two threads run side by side. One follows young Mikhail Gorshenev and Andrey Knyazev as they argue over a band name, play their first house gigs and finally pack the Yubileyny arena before breaking into Moscow. The other is pure fantasy: Gorshok and Knyaz wander off to rescue a captive princess, meeting the tricksters, ghouls and noblemen the punk band actually sings about. Konstantin Plotnikov and Vlad Konoplyov carry both versions of these men at once.
The story never softens its ending — Gorshenev's death in 2013 hangs over every frame, and the show refuses to dress it up. It rewards longtime fans of the cult 1990s-2000s scene, but it also works as an entry point: part chronicle of a band clawing toward fame, part hard look at what fronting it cost. Stream King & Jester (2023) online on iFILM.
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