Director Dmitry Tyurin

Script Andrei Gelasimov

Camera Mark Ziselson

Design Vladimir Svetozarov, Marina Nikolaeva

Music Tomas Dvorak

Cast: Mikhail Grubov, Sergey Lavygin, Roman Kurtsyn, Anna Banschikova, Alexei Guskov, Galina Bokashevskaya, Elena Morozova, Svetlana Smirnova-Martsinkevich, Oleg Kulikovich, Igor Lyakh

Producer Yuri Sapronov

Production Russian World Studios

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Kostya’s life is divided into two parts: before Chechnya and after. And it’s not at all about the war, but during the last fight he suffered serious burns in his tank. His friends rescued him, pulling him from the tank, and the doctors saved his life. But there’s nothing left in Kostya’s life: there’s just him and his disfigured appearance. Now he lives alone, quenches his thirst with vodka and makes drawings. Kostya is afraid of the world outside, as much as the world is afraid of him. With the disappearance of his army friend Sergey a strange mechanism is set in motion, thanks to which Kostya restores his life. Together with his friends he launches a search for his comrade. He sorts out his relationship with the father, who abandoned him when he was a child.

DMITRY TYURIN

Born in 1976 in the city of Asha, Chelyabinsk Region. First trained as mountain engineer (drilling) and worked at the oil deposits in Western Siberia. Graduated from the St. Petersburg University for Film and Television SPbGUKiT (2005, directors’ class of V.Bortko and I.Khamraev). Filmed some episodes of the TV series “Streets of Broken Lights 10”, TV series “Solo for a Pistol with an Orchestra”, “Swallows’ Nest”, etc., and made numerous films for television. “Thirst” is his debut in cinema, which won special diploma of the jury at the Open Russian Film Festival “Kinotavr” in Sochi and Grand-Prix of the Russian competition at the International Debut Film Festival “Sprit of Fire” in Khanty-Mansiysk.