Two escaped convicts pose as children's summer camp staff in order to evade capture and learn about caring for others in the process. Sumrak has been in prison since he was 16 years old but is pushing thirty now, is well acquainted with prison gang culture and covered with tattoos. Evgeni Koltsov is a former police officer unjustly imprisoned and destined for a death sentence from the other inmates if he stays in prison.
Acting
Bezrukov's terrifying-to-tender transformation as Sumrak
Production
Authentic Soviet-era camp that feels frozen in time
Director
Igor Zaytsev
Sergei Bezrukov
Viktor "Sumrak" Sumarokov
Dmitriy Dyuzhev
Evgeniy Koltsov
Alyona Babenko
Tatyana Panteleeva
Vladimir Menshov
Nikolai Vyshkin
Aleksei Kravchenko
Sergei Gagarin
Aleksandr Lykov
Major Gladkikh
Kirill Pletnyov
Gennadiy Vasilkov
Roman Madyanov
Pavel Klykov
Sabina Akhmedova
Lena Bichkina
Lyudmila Polyakova
Aunt Zina
Mikhail Bogdasarov
Head of department
Aleksey Dmitriev
Fugitive "Kopot'"
Konstantin Zheldin
Head of the colony
Timur Bokancha
Andrey Kivinov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bezrukov spent weeks with actual prison tattoo artists to learn their techniques and meanings.
The film quietly critiques Russia's prison-industrial complex, where roughly 30% of adult males have been incarcerated. The camp represents a fantasy outside this system.
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