2010
6.3 (59 votes)
1h 23m
Genres
Drama
Crime
Production Companies
CTB Film Company
The Stoker (Кочегар)
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.
Key Crew
Writer: Aleksey Balabanov
Director: Aleksey Balabanov
Producer: Irina Pavlova, Sergei Selyanov
Director of Photography: Aleksandr Simonov
Top Cast
Mikhail Skryabin
Kochegar
Yuri Matveyev
Vassily 'Bizon'
Aleksandr Mosin
Sergeant - father of Masha
Aida Tumutova
Sasha, daughter Kochegar
Anna Korotayeva
Masha
Filipp Dyachkov
Vyacheslav Pavlyut
Fyodor Alekseevich
Vyacheslav Telnov
Andrei Sergeevich
