The Funeral Party

The Funeral Party (2006)

DramaRomance

Based on the novel by Booker Prize Winner Ludmila Ulitskaya, The Funeral Party is set in August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns nursing him as he fades from this world. Their reminiscences of the dying man and of their lives in Russia are punctuated by debates and squabbles: Whom did Alik love most? Should he be baptized before he dies, as his alcoholic wife, Nina, desperately wishes, or be reconciled to the faith of his birth by a rabbi who happens to be on hand? And what will be the meaning for them of the Yeltsin putsch, which is happening across the world in their long-lost Moscow but also right before their eyes on CNN?

Director: Vladimir Fokin

Casts

	Aleksandr Abdulov as Alik
	Elena Rufanova as Irina Pearson
	Anna Dvorzhetskaya as Tishort
	Anna Aleksakhina as Nina
	Vladimir Kachan as Fima Gruber
	Vladimir Eryomin as Libin
	Liya Akhedzhakova as Marya Ignatyevna
	Boris Klyuev as Lyova Gotlib
	Aleksey Kolgan as Father Viktor
	Irina Loseva as Faina
	Claudia Boczar as Dzhoyka
	Yan Tsapnik as Rabbi Menashe
	Polina Fokina as Valentina
	Sergey Gabrielyan as Juan
	Anna Gusarova as Lyudmila
	Dmitriy Lomovskiy as Dima Rusakov
	Boris Lvovich as Barman Aron
	Maksim Afanasev as Colleague of Nina's Father
	Mikhail Georgiu as Supervisor
	Bob Tsimba as Barman Goliath
	Andris Lielais as Peter Norman
	Yelena Kozhukhova as Jill Norman
	Elena Melnikova as Nina's Mother
	Valeriy Zhakov as Nina's Father
	Vladimir Maysuradze as Rocker
	Elena Antipova as Kazantseva
	Irina Anokhina as Natasha
	Vadim Rodionov as Little Alik
	Grigoriy Gryaznov as Jazzman
	Yevgeniy Baskakov as Jazzman
	Oleg Korshunov as Jazzman
	Marc C. Cancassi as Neighbor
	Vladimir Yavorsky as Kazantsev
	Yevgeni Knyazev as Writer

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