
The film, set in the mid 1990s outside of St. Petersburg, tells the story of an ethnic Yakut, Major Skryabin, a shell-shocked veteran of the Afghan-Soviet War, who works as a stoker. A shell-shocked Afghanistan war hero named Ivan Skryabin…

The film, set in the mid 1990s outside of St. Petersburg, tells the story of an ethnic Yakut, Major Skryabin, a shell-shocked veteran of the Afghan-Soviet War, who works as a stoker. A shell-shocked Afghanistan war hero named Ivan Skryabin…

A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer and subsequently abused by the lawman gone mad. Brother director Alexei Balabanov takes the helm for this over-the-top black comedy concerning the clash between a sadistic police captain and an…