Film

The Watchman

2019 · 1h 46m · Drama · Thriller

IMDb

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.

Yury Bykov

Vlad

Vladislav Abashin

Stas

Alla Yuganova

Vera

Arthur Beschastny

Bogatov

Gela Meskhi

son

Oleg Zima

father

Aleksey Simonov

neighbor

Nikolay Kozak

The Curved One

Dmitriy Blokhin

The Plump One

Evgeny Berezin

The Fast One

Sergey Murzin

center owner

Evgeniya Shipova

prostitute

Lada Brik

prostitute

• Yury BykovDirector · Screenplay · Original Music Composer
• Andrey NovikovProducer
• Alexander KotelevskyProducer
• Olga FilipukProducer
• Vladimir UshakovDirector of Photography
• Anna KrutyEditor

Release date

October 24, 2019

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

16

Budget

$860,000

Revenue

$53,565

Genres

Drama, Thriller