When September Comes

When September Comes (1975) is a Soviet drama-comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Edmond Keosayan. An elderly Armenian pensioner named Levon Pogosyan flies to Moscow — his grandson is starting school and Levon wants to be there.

He is terminally ill. Armen Dzhigarkhanyan plays him without self-pity: just a man who has decided what to do with the time he has left. He walks through a big noisy city, meets strangers — Nikolai Kryuchkov, Vladimir Ivashov, Galina Polskikh — and every encounter is brief and warm. Keosayan made a film not about dying but about where a person chooses to spend their last energy. Levon spends it on other people. Stream When September Comes (1975) online on iFILM.