Two veterans, one broken, one blessed—reunite for a night that'll wreck everything.
Kirill Bazhenov and Eduard Antipov haven’t seen each other for over 20 years. Once, they fought together in Afghanistan, but life pulled them apart for a long time. Now they meet again. Kirill is a successful businessman and a happy family man. Eduard, on the other hand, has long been divorced, lost his job due to drinking, lives in a shared apartment, and survives on odd jobs. The former friends seem to have nothing in common anymore.
Acting
Maykov's Edik—every slur and stumble feels lived-in, not performed.
Production
Moscow's concrete outskirts as fifth character—gray, endless, suffocating.
Director
Viktor Tatarskiy
Pavel Maykov
Edik
Denis Sinyavskiy
Kirill
Paweł Deląg
Pasha
Yuliya Denisova
Vika
Aleksey Sergeev
Sasha
Valeriy Oshomkov
Pyotr
Igor Klyuchnikov
young Edik
Ivan Fedoruk
young Kirill
Mariya Sinyaeva
young Vika
Tatyana Polonskaya
neighbor
Aleksey Baydakov
Sasha
Valentin Kuznetsov
Valentin
Vadim Gushchin
Ilya
Yuriy Utkin
receptionist
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Russia's 'Afghan wave'—films processing Soviet-Afghan War trauma two decades late, when veterans found themselves economically discarded in the new capitalism.
Director Tatarskiy shot this in his own childhood neighborhood; the shared apartment is authentic 1990s communal housing, not a set.
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