Killer Pavel Shnyrev is getting himself a lot of problems. From his mother, who is in the hospital, he learns that his father is alive and that Paul travels to a remote village in search of him. He meets a father who has long been blind and lives with a guide dog. Nevertheless, blindness does not prevent him from living, and a new world and simple village life open up before Paul.
Given the presence of Igor Lifanov and the plot of the picture, you expect a typical Russian crime drama from the film. But the film is still somewhat deeper, despite the typical criminal plot about a killer on the run. The film shows the opposition of simple village life to the urban world of greed and power. The main character gradually comes to the realization of completely different values than those he adhered to before. And the final of the picture is metaphorical and logical in its own way (thank God, they did without a happy ending, in such a picture it would be superfluous).
Lifanov plays a typical character, but in the course of the picture, his cynical hero changes and new facets open up in him. The best role, in my opinion, is played by Vladimir Golovin, who played Shnyrev’s father, such a blind sage, the personification of the spirit of the Russian village. Another key character in this story is the guide dog Chizhik.
Under the cover of a crime film hides a drama about real and false values of life. Good movie.
7 out of 10