A Friend of the Deceased
The era of wild capitalism was on the rise when Anatolii's wife left him. His life changes as he meets his former classmate Dima, now a successful businessman. The young man becomes involved in the murder of the killer. This ill-considered step leads to a series of strange coincidences, which eventually lead the hero to two completely different women - a young harlot and a single widow, whose husband died because of Anatolii.
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Aleksandr Lazarev Jr.
Anatoli
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Anzhelika Nevolina
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Elena Korikova
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Tetyana Kryvytska Stang Lund
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Evgeniy Pashin
Dima
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Serhii Romaniuk
Ivan
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Kostiantyn Kostyshyn
Kostya
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Anatoli Mateshko
Boris
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Valentina Ilyashenko
female bartender
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Rostislav Yankovsky
Igor Lvovich
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Aleksey Goncharenko
Vadim Semyonovich
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Elena Stefanska
Alisa
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Leonid Boyko Director · Viacheslav Kryshtofovych Director Andrii Kurkov Writer
Budget $145K · United States release May 1, 1998 · Produced in France, Ukraine
Box office
Budget
$145,443
Production
Compagnie des Films
Production
Compagnie Est-Ouest
Production
CNC
Production
Dovzhenko Film Studios
Production
Ministry of Culture of Ukraine
Production
Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée
Production
France · Ukraine
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Original title
Приятель небіжчика
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian · Ukrainian
Release dates
France · May 12, 1997
Premiere · Cannes Film Festival [Directors' Fortnight]
France · September 10, 1997
Theatrical
United States · May 1, 1998
Limited theatrical
United States
January 20, 1998 · Premiere · Sundance Film Festival [World Cinema]
Belgium
February 11, 1998 · Theatrical
Canada
September 10, 1997 · Premiere · Toronto International Film Festival
Sweden
February 1, 1998 · Premiere · Göteborg Film Festival
Ukraine
October 31, 2018 · Premiere · Kyiv Critics Week
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