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52% Critic Match
A Friend of the Deceased
5.2 / 10• 1997• 1h 40m•NR• Russian
DramaComedyRomance
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Aleksandr Lazarev Jr.
Anatoli
Lead
Anzhelika Nevolina
Katia
Elena Korikova
Marina
TK
Tetyana Kryvytska Stang Lund
Lena / Vika (as Tatyana Krivitskaya)
Evgeniy Pashin
Dima
Serhii Romaniuk
Ivan
Kostiantyn Kostyshyn
Kostya
Anatoli Mateshko
Boris
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Viacheslav Kryshtofovych's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. A Friend of the Deceased is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
