Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears. It's All Just Beginning (Season 1)

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears. It's All Just Beginning (2025) is a Russian drama series you can watch online on iFILM — a sequel to Vladimir Menshov's Oscar-winning 1980 film, directed this time by Zhora Kryzhovnikov and Olga Dolmatovskaya.

The setting is early 2000s Moscow. Ksyusha arrives with a five-year-old and nothing else — she left her hometown and her abusive husband in the same move. Two friends keep her afloat: Olya, a medical student who actually studies, and Masha, who has been mentally abroad since the nineties and is determined to marry a foreigner. Twenty years later the three of them get another turn. The cast runs deep: Tina Stojilkovic, Maria Kamova, Ivan Yankovskiy, Miloš Biković, Fyodor Bondarchuk, and Marina Zudina.

Kryzhovnikov's instinct is to mix real hardship with real warmth — never one without the other. Stream Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears. It's All Just Beginning (2025) online on iFILM.