π Overview:
A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighborβs five-year-old daughter βall the abomination of her lumpen existenceβ. The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic.
π Languages Available:
Russian
π Date Released:
1997-03-13
β Running Time:
109 mins
β Vote Average:
6.3
Beloved Cast
Tikhomirov
Sergei Makovetsky
Gena
Leonid Kushnir
Venya
Zhan Daniel
Ophelia
Renata Litvinova
doctor
Ivan Okhlobystin
old man
Oleg Tabakov
little girl
Liliya Murlykina
girl in the maternity hospital
Natalya Buzko
mother
Oleksandra Svenska
homosexual
Aleksei Shevchenkov
Yevhen Holubenko
Sofiya Belska