Sober eyes, drunk on power: one man's redemption becomes everyone's nightmare.
After coding from alcoholism, Anatoly Snarov looked at his life with new, sober eyes. It turns out that he has a wife, children and a responsible position of the head of housing and communal services in the district town of Sorochinsk. Having achieved enlightenment, Snarov decides to make others happy. He becomes an exemplary family man and an active citizen. His stormy activity quickly goes beyond the powers of the head of housing and communal services. In the hope of saving themselves from an active reformer, Snarov's entourage is throwing all their strength into decoding him...
Acting
Yevgeni Syty's manic energy as a man too sober for his own good.
Writing
Sharp satire of post-Soviet small-town politics and performative reform.
Production
Authentic Sorochinsk locations that ground the chaos in grim reality.
Director
Pavel Khodnev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sorochinsk is a real district town in Orenburg Oblast, famous for Gogol's 'Sorochinsky Fair'—the film winks at this literary legacy of rural Russian absurdity.
The title 'Daddy Coded' plays on Russian slang where 'coding' means forced alcohol treatment, suggesting Snarov's sobriety is itself a kind of programming he'll never escape.
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