The Watchman (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.
- Released
- 2019-10-24
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Yury Bykov, Yury Bykov
- TMDB rating
- 6.2/10 from 80 votes
Cast
- Yury Bykov as Vlad
- Vladislav Abashin as Stas
- 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