The Stoker

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.

• Aleksei BalabanovWriter
• Aleksei BalabanovDirector

• Mikhail SkryabinKochegar
• Yuri MatveyevVassily 'Bizon'
• Aleksandr MosinSergeant - father of Masha
• Aida TumutovaSasha, daughter Kochegar
• Anna KorotayevaMasha
• Filipp DyachkovCast
• Vyacheslav PavlyutFyodor Alekseevich
• Vyacheslav TelnovAndrei Sergeevich
• Pyotr Semakcolonel, Vera's father
• Irina Osnovinacashier
• Oleg Korytincustomer's driver
• Oleg YudinCast