A journalist walks into a hostage crisis and the lawyer demands HER by name. Girl, run.
Marina (Alyona Babenko) is a journalist contemplating retiring, bored of writing stories of serial killers and murders that are front page news one day, and then are quickly forgotten the next. At a large house a lawyer is holed up, police are in the front garden, snipers on the roof and the lawyer asks for Marina. She’s a little surprised by this as she and the lawyer have only crossed paths a few times during her career, but agrees to go to the lawyers house. Arriving at the house she’s confronted by the large police presence, she’s given a quick debrief of the situation and requested not to go into the house. She declines and enters the house. Just inside the front door is the lawyers wife, she tell Marina that he’s lost it and locked the children in their rooms and that he’s going to kill them all.
Acting
Alyona Babenko's dead-eyed exhaustion is the whole mood.
Direction
Neimand traps you in that house with zero mercy.
Writing
The journalist-as-vulture commentary cuts deep.
Director
Denis Neimand
Alyona Babenko
Marina
Mikhail Efremov
Kind Man, maniac
Vyacheslav Razbegaev
Pavel
Anatoliy Belyy
Aleksandr
Aleksey Serebryakov
Terminator
Igor Savochkin
Terminator
Igor Lifanov
Valentin
Sergey Shakurov
Head doctor
Ivan Urgant
Ilya
Gosha Kutsenko
Naked Man
Renata Litvinova
Naked man's wife
Emiliya Spivak
Lieutenant Tulskaya
Maksim Britvenkov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Russia's post-Soviet crime wave obsession, when serial killers dominated headlines and public imagination.
The title 'Junk' refers to both disposable media stories AND the human debris left behind — Marina included.
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