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A Stoker

Alexey BALABANOV

Russia2010 80min Digi-Beta Color Asian Premiere

Synopsis

In an old boiler room lives Yakut, a retired major and veteran of the war in Afghanistan. Now he works as a stoker who clumsily pecks out his story on an old typewriter in his spare time. And although he is a hermit, the stoker is frequently called on by all sorts of visitors.

Diretor

Alexey BALABANOV

Born in 1959 in Sverdlovsk, he graduated from the Translation Faculty of the Gorky Pedagogical University. In 1990, he graduated from the Advanced Course for Script writers and Directors, where he took part in the experimental Auteur Cinema course. In 1991 he wrote and directed his first feature Happy Days. In 1992, together with producers Sergei Selyanov and Viktor Grigoryev, Mr. Balabanov co-founded the CTB Film Company. CTB has produced almost all of his films to this day.