The Ivanov Family

The Ivanov Family (1975) is a Soviet drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Alexei Saltykov with Nonna Mordyukova and Nikolai Rybnikov heading the cast.

Aleksei, a Moscow student, arrives in Chelyabinsk convinced that a life of physical labour is beneath him. He falls for Lyudmila, a singer from a steelworking family. Nobody argues with him. Nobody lectures him. The Ivanov family simply lives — and its quiet pride turns out to carry more weight than any philosophy. Aleksei puts on the work clothes. Mordyukova plays a woman who communicates entirely through presence. That performance is the reason to seek out The Ivanov Family (1975) online on iFILM.