A Friend of the Deceased (1997)
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.
Directors: Leonid Boyko, Viacheslav Kryshtofovych.
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Aleksandr Lazarev Jr. as Anatoli |
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Anzhelika Nevolina as Katia |
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Elena Korikova as Marina |
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Tetyana Kryvytska Stang Lund as Lena / Vika (as Tatyana Krivitskaya) |
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Evgeniy Pashin as Dima |
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Serhii Romaniuk as Ivan |
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Kostiantyn Kostyshyn as Kostya |
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Anatoli Mateshko as Boris |
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Valentina Ilyashenko as female bartender |
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Rostislav Yankovsky as Igor Lvovich |
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Aleksey Goncharenko as Vadim Semyonovich |
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Elena Stefanska as Alisa |
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Boris Zelenetski as |
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Tamara Plashenko as |
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Yuliia Volchkova as |
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Boris Aleksandrov as |
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Alyosha Kuznetsov as |
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Lyudmyla Travnykova as |
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Tetiana Sheliha as |
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Aleksandr Kusch as |
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Oleksii Bohdanovych as |
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Alexey Zubkov as |
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Leonid Boyko as |
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Alena Korovka as |
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Sergey Smeyan as |
| Directing | Leonid Boyko | Director |
| Directing | Viacheslav Kryshtofovych | Director |
| Writing | Andrii Kurkov | Writer |
| Production | Jacky Ouaknine | Producer |
| Production | Pierre Rival | Producer |
| Art | Roman Adamovych | Production Design |
| Sound | Volodymyr Gronsky | Original Music Composer |