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Feature film — 2019

The Watchman (2019)

6.21h 46mDrama — Thriller

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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A high-signal pick with 80 votes.

Invada Film / Artlight / Yellow, Black & White

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Director: Yury Bykov

On screen

Cast & crew

Yury Bykov as Vlad

Yury Bykov

Vlad

Vladislav Abashin as Stas

Vladislav Abashin

Stas

Alla Yuganova as Vera

Alla Yuganova

Vera

Arthur Beschastny as Bogatov

Arthur Beschastny

Bogatov

Gela Meskhi as son

Gela Meskhi

son

Oleg Zima as father

Oleg Zima

father

Aleksey Simonov as neighbor

Aleksey Simonov

neighbor

Nikolay Kozak as The Curved One

Nikolay Kozak

The Curved One

D

Dmitriy Blokhin

The Plump One

Evgeny Berezin as The Fast One

Evgeny Berezin

The Fast One

Sergey Murzin as center owner

Sergey Murzin

center owner

Evgeniya Shipova as prostitute

Evgeniya Shipova

prostitute