The Stoker

Overview

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.

Directed by Aleksei Balabanov

Top cast

Mikhail Skryabin

Kochegar

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Yuri Matveyev

Vassily 'Bizon'

Aleksandr Mosin

Sergeant - father of Masha

Aida Tumutova

Sasha, daughter Kochegar

A

Anna Korotayeva

Masha

Filipp Dyachkov

Vyacheslav Pavlyut

Fyodor Alekseevich

Vyacheslav Telnov

Andrei Sergeevich

Pyotr Semak

colonel, Vera's father

Irina Osnovina

cashier

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Oleg Korytin

customer's driver

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Oleg Yudin

V

Valery Rybin

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