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Movie Info

Maj. Skryabin, a shellshocked veteran of the Afghan-Soviet War, shovels coal into an incinerator all day. He writes a novel and ignores a former comrade that has become a hitman -- who disposes of corpses in the furnace.

Cast & Crew

Mikhail Skryabin
Kochegar
Yuriy Matveev
Vassily Bizon
Aleksandr Mosin
Sergeant
Aida Tumutova
Sasha
Anna Korotayeva
Masha
Aleksey Balabanov
Director
Aleksey Balabanov
Screenwriter
Sergey Selyanov
Producer
Aleksandr Simonov
Cinematographer
Anastasiya Karimulina
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Critic Reviews for The Stoker

All Critics (8) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (8)

  • The experience becomes unnervingly intoxicating.

    July 31, 2018 | Full Review…

    Michael Brooke

    Sight and Sound

  • It's full of idiosyncratic, almost suicidal directorial choices - a noodly guitar score, inexpressive, doll-like actors - yet weirdly cuts to the heart of a country that's been taken over by such unlovely characters.

    May 16, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

    Peter Bradshaw

    Guardian

  • Fits all the richness and lurid eccentricity of a Scorsese gang epic into 83 pocket-sized minutes.

    May 16, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    David Jenkins

    Little White Lies

  • A potent black comedy with the gentle touch of a razor blade.

    May 12, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    David Parkinson

    Empire Magazine

  • Combines the stilted jet black comedy of Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurismaki with a decisively Russian sensibility, to create a fascinating deconstruction of post-Soviet society.

    February 25, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Patrick Gamble

    CineVue

  • Stange, dark and clever, with a sense of Rabelaisian excess and moral murkiness that's tempered by an ambiguous but unexpectedly forceful moral message, the film address personal responsibility, cruelty and creativity in shady times ...

    May 17, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Hannah McGill

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