Set against the charged backdrop of the Cold War, The Benefactor follows a young Soviet boxer—reluctantly plucked from the mines and thrust into the international arena—who rises to global acclaim just as his life is caught in the crosshairs of political control. Celebrated for his victories but punished for his defiance, he risks everything when he falls for an American woman during a U.S.–USSR boxing duel. As their forbidden love blossoms across borders, the KGB tightens its grip. Denied his Olympic dream and haunted by betrayal, his story unravels into exile, addiction, and a shot at redemption when a chance to fight Mike Tyson surfaces.

The Benefactor is a gripping, emotionally charged drama about love through the Iron Curtain, the price of integrity, and the legacy of resilience. Inspired by true accounts, it blends political intrigue, romance, and the raw intensity of the ring into a moving portrait of a man who refused to be a pawn.

Inspired by true events, Yakiv tells the story of one man's moral awakening during one of the darkest and least known tragedies of the 20th century.

In 1932–1933, a man-made famine—engineered by Stalin’s regime to crush Ukrainian resistance—swept through Soviet Ukraine, killing millions in what is now recognized by many historians as an act of genocide. Amid this terror, one man stood against the tide.

Yakiv Drobot, a loyal Communist and the first head of the collective farm “The Pauper,” finds himself torn between blind obedience to party doctrine and the cries of the starving villagers who look to him for leadership. As state enforcers confiscate grain and condemn entire families to death, Yakiv faces an impossible choice: uphold the regime he has believed in his whole life, or defy it—and risk his own life—to save his community.

Yakiv is a story of quiet resistance, of conscience over conformity, and of how the courage of one man saved nearly 3,000 lives. At its core, it asks: When following orders becomes a crime against humanity, what will you choose?