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.
Released: Sep 10, 1997
Runtime: 100 minutes
Stars: Aleksandr Lazarev Jr., Anzhelika Nevolina, Elena Korikova, Tetyana Kryvytska Stang Lund, Evgeniy Pashin, Serhii Romaniuk
Crew: Leonid Boyko (Director), Viacheslav Kryshtofovych (Director), Andrii Kurkov (Writer), Jacky Ouaknine (Producer), Pierre Rival (Producer), Roman Adamovych (Production Design)