A group Russian soldiers is send to an outpost to guard the area. They pass the day patroulling the area, while being shot at from the forest. They never know if the civillions are hostile or friendly to them.
Direction
Rogozhkin turns waiting into psychological horror.
Acting
Soldiers feel like actual exhausted conscripts, not heroes.
Director
Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Second Chechen War, Rogozhkin captured the specific disorientation of Russia's '90s military disasters.
The title 'Kontrolnaya tochka' refers to checkpoints that became death traps in real Chechen conflicts — soldiers never knew if approaching cars carried civilians or suicide bombers.
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