The Watchman

The Watchman

106 mins | Drama, Thriller | Oct. 24, 2019

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.

The Watchman

106 mins | Drama, Thriller | Oct. 24, 2019

The Watchman
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.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Invada Film, Yellow, Black & White, Artlight
Original title Сторож
Directors Yury Bykov
Writers Yury Bykov

Cast

Yury Bykov

as Vlad

Alla Yuganova

as Vera

Arthur Beschastny

as Bogatov

Gela Meskhi

as son

Oleg Zima

as father

Aleksey Simonov

as neighbor

Nikolay Kozak

as The Curved One

Dmitriy Blokhin

as The Plump One

Evgeny Berezin

as The Fast One

Sergey Murzin

as center owner

Evgeniya Shipova

as prostitute

Lada Brik

as prostitute