THE HUMORIST
2019 • Writer/Director
“A smart social satire focusing on a comic in the late days of the Soviet Union cracking under the weight of official constraints and self-loathing. Screenwriter Michael Idov makes an impressive directing debut… Exceptionally clever dialogue is matched with a sharp understanding of structure” — Variety
LETO (SUMMER)
2018 • Writer
“As much an impressionist portrait of the Soviet Union on the brink of Perestroika as it is an elegiac tribute to the singing revolutionaries who helped pave the way… an ecstatic look back at a brief window of time between oppressions. It’s a shambling, transportive, and semi-tragic story” — IndieWire
JETLAG
2021 • Writer/Director
A fight en route to an airport spurs an ordinary Moscow couple to split on a whim. Nikita ends up in Thailand and Zhenya in Berlin and both land in separate love triangles, causing chaos in others' relationships as they try to fix their. But even continents apart, their lives turn out to be more intricately connected than they realize.
DEUTSCHLAND 89
2020 • Writer
Martin Rauch experiences the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 during his activities as an East German spy.
THE OPTIMISTS
2017 • Creator/Producer/Writer
A Russian spy drama series, set during peak Cold War, that brings a 1960's Mad Men aesthetic to the Nikita Khrushchev era