Get Back On Your Feet

After twenty years behind bars, a former criminal comes home expecting payback, but an unexpected connection with the disabled daughter he never knew may become his only shot at redemption.

A few genuinely interesting facts about Get Back On Your Feet — technically a series, not a film — is that it arrived with strong momentum before its release: the project won “Most Anticipated Series” at the New Season festival, and Gosha Kutsenko also picked up a Best Actor award tied to the show’s early festival run. That gave the series the rare aura of a streaming title people were already talking about before the public premiere.

Another thing that makes the project stand out is its tone. Sources describe it not as straight prison melodrama, but as an inclusive dramedy that mixes rough-edged humor with a story about disability, estrangement, and second chances. Critics particularly noted how the series avoids pity and frames its heroine as tough, ambitious, and fully alive rather than symbolic.

The casting is part of that identity too. The central duo is Gosha Kutsenko and Mila Ershova, and reviews singled out the show for including actor Anton Sankevich, who has Down syndrome, as part of its broader conversation about social stigma and inclusion. In other words, the series tries to make inclusivity part of its world rather than just its message.