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.
Cast
- Mikhail Skryabin as Kochegar
- Yuri Matveyev as Vassily 'Bizon'
- Aleksandr Mosin as Sergeant - father of Masha
- Aida Tumutova as Sasha, daughter Kochegar
- Anna Korotayeva as Masha
- Filipp Dyachkov
- Vyacheslav Pavlyut as Fyodor Alekseevich
- Vyacheslav Telnov as Andrei Sergeevich
- Pyotr Semak as colonel, Vera's father
- Irina Osnovina as cashier