A safecracker witnesses murder, then has to make his kid's birthday party. Priorities, man.
A burglar-safecracker Sasha breaks into a house where he witnesses a crime: the owner of the house, Chernov, has killed his wife. Chernov begins to pursue the escaped witness. Meanwhile, Sasha has to make it to his son's party, because the future of his marriage, which he is trying to save with all his might, depends on it.
Acting
Porechenkov's frantic everyman energy carries the chaos.
Direction
Artemyev keeps tension and comedy in constant collision.
Director
Roman Artemyev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Roman Artemyev cut his teeth on Russian TV crime dramas before his feature debut.
The film riffs on post-Soviet masculinity: the 'provider' criminal desperate for domestic normalcy.
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