A Friend of the Deceased

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 10, 1997

Original language

Ukrainian

Spoken languages

Ukrainian

Countries

France, Kazakhstan, Ukraine

Production

CNC,Dovzhenko Film Studios,Kazakhfilm Studios,Compagnie des Films,Ministry of Culture of Ukraine,Compagnie Est-Ouest

Cast

Aleksandr Lazarev Jr.,Anzhelika Nevolina,Elena Korikova,Tetyana Kryvytska Stang Lund,Evgeniy Pashin,Serhii Romaniuk,Kostiantyn Kostyshyn,Anatoli Mateshko,Valentina Ilyashenko,Rostislav Yankovskyand 15 more

Director

Leonid Boyko,Viacheslav Kryshtofovych

Writer

Andrii Kurkov

Producer

Jacky Ouaknine,Pierre Rival

Music

Volodymyr Gronsky

Budget

$145,443

Revenue

Not recorded

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