Name: Domovoy
Genre: Thriller
Released: 2008-11-13
Duration: 1 h 44 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Mashkov, Chulpan Khamatova

Great thriller with some of the best Russian actors of the 21st century

Great thriller with some of the best Russian actors of the 21st century. Here Khabensky is still quite young and clearly loses in the acting to Mashkov. But the way the main characters play out is excellent. And Chulfan Khamatova played great. The plot itself perfectly catches up with suspense, which can be seen very rarely in Russian cinema. Well, the main thing that the film is good is its completion, because now Anton Prachenko will always be afraid of something.

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