Small town, dead girlfriend, and a gangster named Dima. You can't go home again.
The hero of the film, a thirty-year-old young man, returns to his hometown and discovers that he is becoming a participant in some kind of intrigue, the logic that should lead him to clash with Dima, the head of one of the local criminal gangs, Mikhail cannot avoid fighting, because the mystery of his beloved's death is connected with this name...
Acting
Karasyov's simmering desperation sells every bad decision.
Cinematography
Bleached Uzbekistan landscapes that feel like purgatory.
Director
Farkhot Abdullaev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Soviet collapse, the film captures Central Asian cinema's pivot from state propaganda to raw existential crime dramas. Director Abdullaev never made another feature.
The title refers to a local saying about men who become pawns in others' schemes — Mikhail believes he's solving a mystery, but he's really completing someone else's revenge.
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