How Viktor "The Garlic" Took Alexey "The Stud" to the Nursing Home

How Viktor "The Garlic" Took Alexey "The Stud" to the Nursing Home

2018 · 90 min · RU · 7.0 (55 votes)
Dir. Alexandr Khant · Starring Evgeniy Tkachuk, Aleksey Serebryakov, Andrey Smirnov, Nataliya Vdovina, Olga Ozollapinya, Olga Lapshina
DramaComedy

Viktor spends his free time trawling bars with ladies of questionable repute, from where he is picked up by a wife he doesn’t love, the mother of a child they never planned. Viktor himself was abandoned by his own father, his mother then committed suicide, and he was left to grow up in an orphanage. Years later, his errant dad returns, now a disabled felon, and Viktor discovers a timely legacy is in the offing – his father’s apartment. The documentation for securing dad’s move into an old people’s home is signed in a flash. Nevertheless, the only one that can take him is miles away and, what’s more, the invalid starts to recuperate during the journey, which is when their real problems begin.

VIBE

A darkly funny, yet poignant, look at fractured family ties. It's a gritty, character-driven journey that explores the messy realities of aging parents and estranged sons, with a surprisingly tender core beneath its cynical surface.

darkly comedicmelancholiccynicalgrittysteadycharacter-driven dramasocial realismquirky indiefamily dysfunctionabandonmentunconventional redemptionaging