A Friend of the Deceased
1997•1h 40m•5.2•Released
DramaComedyRomance
Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquaintance 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.
Director
Leonid Boyko
Writer
Andrii Kurkov
Budget
$0M
Languages
Russian, Ukrainian
Studio
Compagnie des Films
Cast
Aleksandr Lazarev Jr.
Anatoli
Anzhelika Nevolina
Katia
Elena Korikova
Marina
Tetyana Kryvytska Stang Lund
Lena / Vika (as Tatyana Krivitskaya)
Evgeniy Pashin
Dima
Serhii Romaniuk
Ivan
Kostiantyn Kostyshyn
Kostya
Anatoli Mateshko
Boris
Valentina Ilyashenko
female bartender
Rostislav Yankovsky
Igor Lvovich
Aleksey Goncharenko
Vadim Semyonovich
Elena Stefanska
Alisa
Boris Zelenetski
Tamara Plashenko
Yuliia Volchkova
Production
Company
Compagnie des Films
Company
Compagnie Est-Ouest
Company
CNC
Company
Dovzhenko Film Studios
Company
Ministry of Culture of Ukraine
Producer
Jacky Ouaknine
Producer
Pierre Rival
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