The Teachers(2019)

The Teachers is a Russian drama series centered on the moral divide between two sisters shaped by their father's power and privilege. Sergei, Deputy Minister for Education, uses his position to pursue younger women while his daughters chart opposing paths. Masha, a school teacher, refuses her father's help and insists on building her career through merit alone, driven by idealistic principles. Her older sister Tatiana takes the opposite approach, leveraging their father's connections without hesitation and accepting bribes from parents seeking favors for their children. As Tatiana pursues a series of affairs in search of meaning, the sisters' conflicting values expose the corruption and hypocrisy that permeate their world. The series explores how privilege, ambition, and family legacy shape choices, and whether integrity can survive in a system built on compromise.