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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.

Top Cast

  • Yury Bykov

    Yury Bykov

    Vlad

  • Vladislav Abashin

    Vladislav Abashin

    Stas

  • Alla Yuganova

    Alla Yuganova

    Vera

  • Arthur Beschastny

    Arthur Beschastny

    Bogatov

  • Gela Meskhi

    Gela Meskhi

    son

  • Oleg Zima

    Oleg Zima

    father

  • Aleksey Simonov

    Aleksey Simonov

    neighbor

  • Nikolay Kozak

    Nikolay Kozak

    The Curved One

  • Dmitriy Blokhin

    Dmitriy Blokhin

    The Plump One

Overview

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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