

The Watchman
2019-10-24 · 106 min · ★ 6.2
The protagonist Vlad is a man of about forty; he lives and works as watchman in an old sanatorium that is due to be demolished. He obviously needs this work to live the life of a hermit. One night a married couple appears at the sanatorium: Vera and Stas. They are on the run. They are pursued by former friends and business partners of Stas. Vlad decides to help them, because he too is hiding from the past. Each character is threatened with the inevitable payment for wrong choices in the past, but helping each other, they try to expiate these faults.
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- Directors
- Yury Bykov
- Production companies
- Invada Film, Artlight, Yellow, Black & White
- Countries
- Russia
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- USD 860,000
- Revenue
- USD 53,565
Top Cast
Yury BykovVlad
Vladislav AbashinStas
Alla YuganovaVera
Arthur BeschastnyBogatov
Gela Meskhison
Oleg Zimafather
Aleksey Simonovneighbor
Nikolay KozakThe Curved One
Dmitriy BlokhinThe Plump One
Evgeny BerezinThe Fast One
Sergey Murzincenter owner
Evgeniya Shipovaprostitute
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