Night Watch (2004)

Night Watch
is a 2004 Russian supernatural thriller film directed by Timur Bekmambetov. It is loosely based on the novel The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko, and is the first part of a trilogy, followed by Day Watch and ending supposedly with Twilight Watch (although the rights for it were acquired by FOX, production has not started yet)






Genre:
                Action | Fantasy | Thriller
Director: 
                Timur Bekmambetov
Stars: 
                Konstantin Khabenskiy,
                Vladimir Menshov and Mariya Poroshina




Description: 
In the prologue, which is set in medieval times, humans with extra powers are called Others (Иные, иной; Inyye, Inoy). The Others are proponents of either light or dark and confront each other to battle. Geser, lord of light, realizes that the two forces are evenly matched and both will be destroyed. In parley with Zavulon, general of Dark, the two agree to a truce in which the light will form a Night Watch and the dark a Day Watch to maintain the balance before the coming of the Great One who will choose either Light or Dark and thereby bring one to prominence.In modern Russia, when his wife leaves him for another man, Anton Gorodetsky (Russian: Антон Городецкий) visits an old woman, Daria, whom he believes is able to bring his wife back. Daria tells him that his wife is pregnant by another man and that she must miscarry, because giving birth bonds her to that other man. Anton accepts responsibility for this. Daria prepares a drink including Anton's blood, which he drinks. The shot cuts to his wife telling the other man they have to split up. Daria starts to recite an incantation to induce an abortion, and Anton's wife on a distant boat collapses and clutches at her womb. Just as the incantation is about to be complete, two figures become visible in the room, and a third appears at the door, who shapeshifts into a tiger, and restrains the old woman. They express surprise when Anton sees them and note that he must be an "Other". Twelve years later, Anton has become a member of the Night Watch along with the three figures. On Anton's request, Kostya, his neighbor, takes him to his father, a butcher, to get blood for Anton to drink. The father does so, although reluctantly, and then tells Kostya those of the Night Watch only drink blood when they hunt vampires.