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66% Critic Match
He Was a Friend of Him
6.6 / 10• 2015• 27m•NR• Russian
DramaThrillerCrime
Storyline
After failing to commit his first murder, an aspiring serial killer decides that the most rational way to get started is to kill a friend who totally trusts you. This is how a lonely mentally unstable guy meets a naive next-door boy.
Cast & Crew
Sergey Pokhodaev
Igor
Lead
Kirill Poluhin
father
Ivan Mulin
Andrey
Aleksey Kolubkov
writer
Ivan Raspopov
leading
AK
Alisa Kosareva
Girl in the park
KI
Kseniya Isaverdyan
Girl at the door
NB
Natalya Burakova
Girl at the subway
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Evgeny Puzyrevsky's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. He Was a Friend of Him is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
