A Friend of the Deceased

5.21997DramaComedyRomance

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.

Original titleПриятель небіжчика

Release1997-09-10

Runtime100 min

StatusReleased

CountriesFrance, Ukraine

Original languageRU

SpokenRussian, Ukrainian

DirectorViacheslav Kryshtofovych, Leonid Boyko

WritersAndrii Kurkov

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

Votes12

Popularity1