To Kill the Evening (2003)
Certain circumstances force the successful businessman Viktor to stay in a small seaside city longer than he had planned. It’s the New Year’s Eve. To “kill the evening”, the hero gets acquainted with a young salesgirl, Lyuba. Quite unexpectedly, they fall passionately and fatally in love… A lyrical variation on the theme of a gallant prince and a poor Cinderella, starring the inveterate lady-killer of Russian screen Sergey Zhigunov (“The Princess on a Bean”) and the young primadonna of the Aleksandrinsky Theatre Yuliya Marchenko (“Swan Paradise”), with the musical accompaniment of the famous Gypsy group “Loiko”.
Director: Elena Zhigaeva
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Aleksey Panin as |
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Sergey Zhigunov as |
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Nataliya Vdovina as |
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Tatyana Agafonova as |
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Irina Shevchuk as |
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Igor Muzhzhuhin as |
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Aleksandr Lyrchikov as |
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Yuliya Marchenko as |
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Olga Khokhlova as |
| Directing | Elena Zhigaeva | Director |
| Sound | Sergei Erdenko | Music |
| Writing | Marina Mareeva | Writer |
| Camera | Vadim Semenovykh | Camera Operator |