A cop, a car, and a whole lot of gangsters who didn't get the memo.
Driven by a separate order of the investigator, a car - material evidence in one criminal case - from Perm to St. Petersburg, Pasha Arnautov finds himself in the very epicenter of the confrontation between two gangster groups.
Direction
Averin keeps tension wire-tight across 88 minutes.
Acting
Tsurilo's everyman desperation anchors the chaos.
Production
Perm-to-Petersburg road trip as existential nightmare.
Director
Dmitriy Averin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 88-minute runtime was reportedly a budget constraint that forced brutal efficiency in storytelling.
Released during a wave of Russian neo-noirs examining post-Soviet institutional rot; the Perm-Petersburg route mirrors Russia's own fractured geography.
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