Director: Oleksii Taranenko
Cast: Maryna Koshkina, Dmytro Pavko, Volodymyr Rashchuk, Oleksandr Yatsentiuk, Mykhailo Dziuba
The Dam is a 2025 Ukrainian action-horror film directed by Oleksii Taranenko, following a squad of soldiers who stumble upon a sealed subterranean complex left over from the Soviet era — only to discover that what is buried beneath has never truly stopped moving.
What is The Dam about?
A unit of Ukrainian soldiers on a wartime mission comes across a concealed underground facility that appears on no official maps. Inside, they uncover evidence of clandestine experiments conducted during the late Soviet period on human subjects. What initially reads as an abandoned relic of Cold War paranoia quickly reveals itself to be something far more dangerous: the subjects of those experiments are still present, and still active. Cut off from reinforcements, the soldiers must hold their ground against an enemy that conventional tactics cannot easily stop, while the facility's labyrinthine corridors keep working against them.
Cast & crew
Director Oleksii Taranenko leads a cast of Ukrainian screen talent. Maryna Koshkina and Dmytro Pavko head the ensemble, supported by Volodymyr Rashchuk, Oleksandr Yatsentiuk, Mykhailo Dziuba, Andrii Podliesnyi, Orest Pasichnyk, and Iryna Kudashova. The production draws on domestic Ukrainian genre filmmaking that has grown noticeably since the mid-2010s.
Context & significance
For Persian-speaking diaspora viewers who enjoy international genre cinema, The Dam offers a distinctly Eastern European flavour of horror that differs from Hollywood conventions — bunker settings, Soviet-era institutional dread, and soldiers as protagonists rather than civilians. Ukraine has produced a handful of genre films in recent years that quietly circulate among horror fans worldwide, and this 2025 entry taps into the zombie-military subgenre with a Cold War mythology twist. The film is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing, meaning you can follow every scene without reading subtitles, making it an easy pick for a late-night group watch.
Where & how to watch
The Dam is available on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles — choose whichever suits your mood. Stream it on the web, on your TV, or on your phone with no VPN required and no geo-blocking. Your subscription covers everything; cancel anytime.