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Following a brawl, Captain Ignat, who is traumatised by the death of his daughter, is ordered together with a regular soldier to find a deserter and bring him back via Moscow to stand before a military court. Although they locate the young soldier, their journey across the wintry moloch that is Moscow is slow and tortuous. Before long, the unlikely trio find themselves drawn into a chaotic maelstrom of violence, corruption, criminality, degradation and squalidness. In the face of the monstrous malaise and everyday horror of life in Russia, the gradual breakdown of the film’s anti-hero becomes a metaphor for Russian society.Read moreLess
Following a brawl, Captain Ignat, who is traumatised by the death of his daughter, is ordered together with a regular soldier to find a deserter and bring him back via Moscow to stand before a military court. Although they locate the young soldier, their journey across the wintry moloch that is Moscow is slow and tortuous. Before long, the unlikely trio find themselves drawn into a chaotic maelstrom of violence, corruption, criminality, degradation and squalidness. In the face of the monstrous malaise and everyday horror of life in Russia, the gradual breakdown of the film’s anti-hero becomes a metaphor for Russian society.
The story
Following a brawl, Captain Ignat, who is traumatised by the death of his daughter, is ordered together with a regular soldier to find a deserter and bring him back via Moscow to stand before a military court. Although they locate the young soldier, their journey across the wintry moloch that is Moscow is slow and tortuous. Before long, the unlikely trio find themselves drawn into a chaotic maelstrom of violence, corruption, criminality, degradation and squalidness. In the face of the monstrous malaise and everyday horror of life in Russia, the gradual breakdown of the film’s anti-hero becomes a metaphor for Russian society.
Cast & crew
Oleg VasilkovIgnat
Azamat NigmanovArtyom
Dmitriy KulichkovSergeant
Daniela StojanovićIgnat's Wife
Taras KolyadovWata
Nikolay KachuraMilitia Leader
Evgeny AntropovTimoha DeserterExplore the crew
- Director
- Aleksei Mizgiryov
- Editor
- Natalya Kucherenko
- Producer
- Pavel Lungin
- Screenplay
- Aleksei Mizgiryov
- Director of Photography
- Jānis Eglītis
- Producer
- Evgeniy Panfilov
- Producer
- Pavel Popov
- Producer
- Andrey Rydanov
- Original Music Composer
- Alexandr Manotskov