The Guard (1990 film)

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.

The film is based on the real story of a Soviet internal troops soldier Artūras Sakalauskas 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.

• Sergei Kupriyanov as private Andrey Iveren
• Aleksey Buldakov as senior warrant officer Paromov, commander of the guard
• Dmitri Iosifov as senior sergeant Alexey Zhokhin, assistant to the commander of the guard
• Aleksei Poluyan as private Nikolai Mazur, the cook
• Aleksandr Smirnov as private Khaustov
• Taras Denisenko as corporal Boris Korchenuk
• Vasili Domrachyov as private Nishchenkin
• Renat Ibragimov as private Ibragimov
• Valeri Kravchenko as Khorkov, the convict
• Aleksey Zaytsev as the convict
• Nikita Mikhailovsky as the snitch convict

• The Guard at IMDb