The protagonist Vlad is a man of about forty; he lives and works as watchman in an old sanatorium that is due to be demolished. He obviously needs this work to live the life of a hermit. One night a married couple appears at the sanatorium: Vera and Stas. They are on the run. They are pursued by former friends and business partners of Stas. Vlad decides to help them, because he too is hiding from the past. Each character is threatened with the inevitable payment for wrong choices in the past, but helping each other, they try to expiate these faults.
Unfortunately the movie The Watchman is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Sound | Ivan Isyanov | Music |
| Costume & Make-Up | Polina Statsenko | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Anzhela Timerkhanova | Casting Director |
| Sound | Nikita Gankin | Sound Director |
| Sound | Evgeny Goryainov | Sound Director |
| Visual Effects | Elena Medvedeva | VFX Supervisor |
| Directing | Yury Bykov | Director |
| Production | Alexander Kotelevsky | Producer |
| Production | Andrey Novikov | Producer |
| Writing | Yury Bykov | Screenplay |
| Camera | Vladimir Ushakov | Director of Photography |
| Art | Eduard Gizatullin | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Polina Grechko | Costume Design |
| Editing | Anna Kruty | Editor |
| Sound | Yury Bykov | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Olga Filipuk | Producer |
