The Watchman

Plot

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.

Cast

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