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Day Watch (), a Russian sci-fi blockbuster marketed as "the first film of the year", opened in theatres across Russia on January 1, 2006. It is a sequel to the hugely popular 2004 film Night Watch
, featuring the same cast. It is based on the the second and the third part of Sergey Lukyanenko's novel Night Watch
rather than its follow-up novel Day Watch
. The film's budget was $4.2 million and is expected to gross $40 million in Russia alone.

Plot summary

It is New Year's Eve of 2006, more than one year after the events of Night Watch. Anton Gorodetsky, the protagonist of the first film, finds himself in the middle of an approaching conflict between the Light and Dark Others, who are still bound with an uneasy truce. Anton is still a Night Watch operative, now working with his trainee and romantic interest, Svetlana (the healer from the first film, now a Light Other). As his illegitimate son Yegor has now become a Dark Other, Anton is forced to secretly destroy evidence of Yegor's attacks on normal people, which violate the treaty, leaving the Night Watch unable to sentence Yegor.

To redeem for his previous mistake, an attempt to use a witch's service to kill the unborn Yegor (shown in the beginning of the first film), Anton seeks the legendary Chalk of Fate, a magical chalk that could rewrite history, which was once Tamerlan's property and one of the main reasons of his numerous military successes.

Meanwhile, Zavulon, the leader of the Dark Others and their Day Watch, is waiting for Yegor's birthday. At the birthday, Yegor would become a Great Other and acquire the power that would allow the Dark Others to break the treaty (which is only supported because the Others fear that the two sides will destroy each other). Being grateful to Anton for his covering of Yegor doesn't stop the Day Watch from trying to frame Anton and get him sentenced for murder. They succeed, despite the efforts made by Boris Ivanovich Geser (the head of the Night Watch) to protect Anton from the Dark Others by switching his body with that of Olga the sorceress (in this form, his relationship with Svetlana suddenly gains a boost, as Svetlana confesses to the false Olga that she actually loves Anton).

Finally Anton gets hold of the Chalk of Fate, but it is soon stolen by Yegor. Zavulon cannot use or even touch the Chalk (it would be a direct violation of the treaty), and it ends up being used by Alisa Donnikova, Zavulon's minion, for her personal desires. Yegor's birthday party begins soon after that; the guests are Dark Others (some of them are Russian pop stars), although Anton makes his way to the party as Yegor's father and pretends to be drunk to expose the real committer of the murder he has been charged with. He is unable, however, to avert a disaster: as Svetlana rushes to the party to find Anton, she pushes Yegor and accdentally spills his blood, prompting Zavulon to break the treaty.

Yegor, now a Great Other, unleashes an apocalypse upon Moscow. The city is nearly destroyed, starting with the Ostankino Tower; a fierce battle between the Light and Dark Others follows, with few survivors on each side. One of them, however, is Anton, who manages to reclaim the Chalk of Fate from Alisa and runs through the ruins of Moscow to the house where he, thirteen years ago, made his visit to the witch — the visit that caused the entire sequence of events, starting Anton's own initiation into the Night Watch. Anton writes "NO" on a wall in this house; Moscow reverts to normal, and time is thrown back to 1992.

In the epilogue, as a result of the Chalk's influence, Anton rethinks his intent to kill his unborn child and decides not to strike a deal with the witch. He walks out of the house, into the street, where he meets Svetlana, and where Zavulon and Geser are sitting on a bench, without any signs of hostility, wondering whether Anton will recognize her or not. Eventually Geser's prediction that he will recognize her come true, and the film ends with Anton and Svetlana walking together under an umbrella — down the street and away.

Response

According to Channel One (producer of film), by January 42006 about two million people in Russia and CIS have already watched the movie. The release of the film across Russia was timed for the long holiday period (from January 1 through January 9) and created demand among the ticket-buying public unprecedented in the post-Soviet period. Gemini Film states that preliminary assessment for Day Watch box office by January 182006 is $26.6 million.

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