The Guard (Russian: Караул, romanized: Karaul) is a 1990 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin. It was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Alfred Bauer Prize.^[1] The film is shot entirely in sepia.

Plot

The film is based on the real story of a Soviet Internal Troops soldier who killed his entire unit (the karaul) as a result of Dedovschina (hazing). The plot unfolds mostly on board of the prisoner transport rail car guarded by a unit of paramilitary conscripts.

Cast

• Aleksey Buldakov as Paromov
• Sergei Kupriyanov as Andrej Iveren
• Aleksei Poluyan as Nikolai Mazur
• Aleksandr Smirnov as Private Khaustov
• Taras Denisenko as Boris Korchenuk
• Vasili Domrachyov as Private Nishchenkin
• Andrei Zertsalov as (as A. Zertsalov)
• Renat Ibragimov as Ibragimov
• Dmitri Iosifov as Alexey Zhokhin
• Valeri Kravchenko
• Aleksey Zaytsev

References

External links

• The Guard at IMDb

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