The Saboteur (Season 1)

The Saboteur (2004) is a Russian wartime drama series you can watch online on iFILM. It's summer 1942, and two young reconnaissance-school graduates are hitching a ride to their first posting when a German ambush kills one and leaves the other in an impossible situation.

The survivor takes his dead comrade's papers and, half in shock, agrees to carry on under that name. Vladislav Galkin plays the man navigating this borrowed identity behind enemy lines, alongside Alexei Bardukov, Andrei Krasko, Mikhail Yefremov and Vladimir Menshov — a cast that gives the series real weight at every level.

The show aired on Russia's Channel One and became one of the most-talked-about wartime dramas of the early 2000s — not for action set-pieces but for treating its characters as people caught in moral corners the war manufactured for them. Stream all episodes of The Saboteur online on iFILM.