A Friend of the Deceased
1997·Russia·100 min.
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Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquantance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Instead, however, he arranges for the hit to be placed on himself. Before the contract is executed, he develops a relationship with a prostitute, and then changes his mind. In order to survive he takes the obvious course of action, which turns out to have possibly been unnecessary, and then he must deal with the guilt.
ScreenwriterAndrei Kurkov
MusicVladimir Gronsky
CinematographyVilen Kaluta
CastAleksandr Lazarev Ml.·Anzhelika Nevolina·Elena Korikova·Tatyana Krivitskaya·Yevgeni Pashin·Serhiy Romaniuk·Anatoliy Mateshko·Konstantin Kosyshin·Valentina Iliashenko·Rostislav Yankovskiy·Aleksey Goncharenko·Elena StefanskaShow all
Original titlePriyatel pokoynika