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(2010)Directed by Aleksei Balabanov83 minDrama, Crime

A former Afghanistan veteran (Mikhail Skryabin) wants only to be left alone with his furnace, his coal, and the historical novel he works on between shifts. Aleksei Balabanov sets him in 1990s St. Petersburg, where his daughter Sasha (Aida Tumutova) visits and gangsters like a former army sergeant (Aleksandr Mosin) drop by with special kindling for the fire. He keeps stoking, shell-shocked and quiet, and that silence is what the work asks of him.