Heroes of Jokes

Heroes of Jokes (2025) is a Russian comedy by director Andrey Nikiforov — watch it online on iFILM. When hapless provincial Petya accidentally brings to life the characters from his Soviet joke anthology, four folk archetypes land in modern Moscow: Vasily Ivanovich, the eternal mother-in-law, the Chukchi man, and the New Russian.

Each one acts exactly as their jokes demand. The Chukchi is unflappable. The mother-in-law has immediately taken charge of everything. The New Russian — gold chain, crimson blazer, a nineties foreign car — cannot work out what a ride-share app wants from him. Petya has to get all four of them back before the jokes vanish from human memory for good. Starring Anton Bogdanov, Maria Gorban, Olga Tumaykina, and Fyodor Lavrov. For anyone raised on Soviet joke culture the film is warm nostalgia; for everyone else it is a solid fish-out-of-water comedy. Watch Heroes of Jokes (2025) on iFILM.