The film stars Konstantin Khabensky in the title role, with Ksenia Buravskaya, Polina Agureeva, Darya Moroz, Valentina Lukaschuk, Yevgeny Stychkin, Kirill Pletnyov, Igor Zolotovitsky, Tatyana Lazareva, Alexander Tyutin, Marina Lisovets, Nikita Tyunin providing voices.

But his main enemy, the author of the video, turns out to be a widow who is convinced that it was Arthur who drove her husband to suicide.

[3] Almost the entire film takes place within a room, where the main character is talking to phone.

Shooting took place in real time for 8 days,[4] and the filmmakers only took breaks to change the cameras' memory cards.

Arthur is the only character shown on screen — others interact with him on the phone, their parts were also recorded in real time.

[1][6] About the Collector was written: "The film, where the viewer does not observe the events on the screen, instead events of the human soul - the most difficult and the most valuable thing in any field of art" (Rossiyskaya Gazeta[7]), "The creators of "Collector" managed to escape stereotypes and awaken a simple human interest to the hero, supported by cinematic suspense" (Kommersant[8]), "Because of this Khabensky is the star of our cinema, he can hold the attention of the viewers for more than an hour purely with his charisma and voice" (Film.ru[9]), "a brilliant solo performance with one of the best Russian actors of our time" (The Hollywood Reporter Russia[10]).