Two men, one locked room, endless vodka, and a night that will wreck everything.
The main character Alexander, the large businessman and the influential person in the city, after the intense working day is lucky the friend and the assistant Dmitry in restaurant. But to Dmitry's surprise, there they are waited by neither business partners, nor friends - indoors at all there are no visitors. Men should spend time in the company of silent waiters and numerous bottles with content of various fortress. When the door is locked from within, two heroes on a showdown have whole night.
Acting
Grishkovec's unraveling aristocrat is genuinely hard to watch.
Direction
Matison traps you in that room with zero mercy.
Director
Anna Matison
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Post-Soviet 'new Russian' cinema often explores wealth as moral rot; this is a chamber-piece distillation of that obsession.
The restaurant setting deliberately echoes Soviet 'ryumochnaya' culture—intimate drinking spaces where power was negotiated in whispers.
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