Snow-covered canals and a forbidden meeting anchor Silver Skates, a period romance set in St. Petersburg on the edge of a new century.
What is Silver Skates about?
As 1899 gives way to 1900, St. Petersburg's frozen waterways turn into a stage for skaters, vendors, and lamplighters. Matvey, who spends his days lighting the city's lamps, guards a single inheritance: a pair of silver-plated skates passed down from his father. Alice, raised inside a household of rank and privilege, wants nothing more than to study science, a path closed to women of her station. A chance encounter on the ice pulls the two into each other's orbit, and what begins as an accident becomes a shared attempt to outrun the expectations placed on them. Their romance plays out against a city lit by lanterns and shadowed by class lines neither can simply ignore.
About the cast
Fedor Fedotov and Sofya Priss lead as Matvey and Alice, with Aleksey Guskov, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Severija Janušauskaitė, Kirill Zaytsev, Yuriy Borisov, and Aleksandra Revenko rounding out the ensemble. Director Mikhail Lokshin builds the film around the icebound geography of turn-of-the-century St. Petersburg, letting the setting carry as much weight as the central pairing.
Context & significance
Silver Skates arrives from Russia and belongs to a small cluster of historical romances that use the turn of the twentieth century as a hinge point, a moment when old hierarchies were beginning to loosen even as they remained firmly in place. The adventure and family threads running alongside the central romance widen its appeal beyond a single audience, and the historical setting gives the story room to explore ambition and class without needing modern-day framing.
Watching Silver Skates on Ktime
Silver Skates streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, both available so viewers can choose how they experience the film. The page itself is free to browse, and watching requires only a K-Time account login, with the interface built around a Farsi-first experience for the diaspora audience.