The Stoker
(2010)
★ 6.1 IMDb · 70 votes
Year: 2010
Runtime: 87 мин
Country: Russia
Director: Алексей Балабанов
Cast: Михаил Скрябин, Yuri Matveyev, Александр Мосин, Aida Tumutova, Anna Korotayeva, Филипп Дьячков, Вячеслав Павлють, Vyacheslav Telnov, Пётр Семак, Ирина Основина
Plot
A shell-shocked Afghanistan war hero named Ivan Skryabin (Mikhail Skryabin) spends his days stoking the fire in a giant coal furnace. When he isn’t tending the flames, he keeps busy with other activities. He works on a historical novel. His adult daughter Sasha (Aida Tumutova) comes to visit. Local kids come to gaze at the flames. Gangsters, including a former Army sergeant (Aleksandr Mosin) and a sniper known as Bison (Yuri Matveyev), drop by to add special kindling to the fire.