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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.
Theatrical
May 1, 1998
Budget
$145K
Directors
Viacheslav Kryshtofovych, Leonid Boyko
Producers
Music
Studio
Compagnie des Films, Compagnie Est-Ouest, CNC, Dovzhenko Film Studios, Ministry of Culture of Ukraine
Original Title
Приятель небіжчика
Original Language
Russian
Cast
Full credits →A
Aleksandr Lazarev Jr.
Anatoli
A
Anzhelika Nevolina
Katia
E
Elena Korikova
Marina
E
Evgeniy Pashin
Dima
S
Serhii Romaniuk
Ivan
K
Kostiantyn Kostyshyn
Kostya
A
Anatoli Mateshko
Boris
V
Valentina Ilyashenko
female bartender
R
Rostislav Yankovsky
Igor Lvovich
A
Aleksey Goncharenko
Vadim Semyonovich
E
Elena Stefanska
Alisa
B
Boris Zelenetski
T
Tamara Plashenko
Y
Yuliia Volchkova
B
Boris Aleksandrov
T
Tetiana Sheliha
O
Oleksii Bohdanovych
A
Alexey Zubkov
S
Sergey Smeyan
