Following a brawl, Captain Ignat, who is traumatised by the death of his daughter, is ordered together with a regular soldier to find a deserter and bring him back via Moscow to stand before a military court. Although they locate the young soldier, their journey across the wintry moloch that is Moscow is slow and tortuous. Before long, the unlikely trio find themselves drawn into a chaotic maelstrom of violence, corruption, criminality, degradation and squalidness. In the face of the monstrous malaise and everyday horror of life in Russia, the gradual breakdown of the film’s anti-hero becomes a metaphor for Russian society.
Aleksei Mizgiryov | Director |
Aleksei Mizgiryov | Screenplay |
Pavel Lungin | Producer |
Kirill Shuvalov | Production Design |
Natalya Kucherenko | Editor |
Jānis Eglītis | Director of Photography |
Evgeniy Panfilov | Producer |
Andrey Rydanov | Producer |
Pavel Popov | Producer |
Maksym Volynets | Stunt Driver |