Guard
2019 [RUSSIAN]
Action / Drama / Thriller
6.2/10
2.1K
Plot summary
The protagonist Vlad is a man of about forty; he lives and works as watchman in an old sanatorium that is due to be demolished. He obviously needs this work to live the life of a hermit. One night a married couple appears at the sanatorium: Vera and Stas. They are on the run. They are pursued by former friends and business partners of Stas. Vlad decides to help them, because he too is hiding from the past. Each character is threatened with the inevitable payment for wrong choices in the past, but helping each other, they try to expiate these faults.
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Movie Reviews
UNGUARDED....
Modern Russian cinema done right
What happens when you put several people each running from their own demons together in an empty resort in the middle of a frozen field with no witnesses within sight or reach? They are forced to face their demons and resolve them!
This movie is very Russian but not soviet for which I applaud it. It lacks the pointless theatrics and dull mundane time fillers i have come to expect with their scripts. Instead, it offers a good scenic backdrop and begins to feed in the characters to you with just enough time in between them so you can keep track and get to know them before the next one arrives. Think of this movie as a very very loose "hateful eight", Russian style. Everybody has a secret they must reckon with. The price for some, is higher than for others.