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A Friend of the Deceased
A Friend of the Deceased

A Friend of the Deceased

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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.

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Budget

$145443

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

Ukrainian

Runtime

100 mins

Rating

4.6/10

Release Date

10 September 1997

Country

France

Cast

Aleksandr Lazarev Jr.

Aleksandr Lazarev Jr.

Anatoli

Anzhelika Nevolina

Anzhelika Nevolina

Katia

Elena Korikova

Elena Korikova

Marina

Tetyana Kryvytska Stang Lund

Tetyana Kryvytska Stang Lund

Lena / Vika (as Tatyana Krivitskaya)

Evgeniy Pashin

Evgeniy Pashin

Dima

Serhii Romaniuk

Serhii Romaniuk

Ivan

Kostiantyn Kostyshyn

Kostiantyn Kostyshyn

Kostya

Anatoli Mateshko

Anatoli Mateshko

Boris

Valentina Ilyashenko

Valentina Ilyashenko

female bartender

Rostislav Yankovsky

Rostislav Yankovsky

Igor Lvovich

Aleksey Goncharenko

Aleksey Goncharenko

Vadim Semyonovich

Elena Stefanska

Elena Stefanska

Alisa

Boris Zelenetski

Boris Zelenetski

Tamara Plashenko

Tamara Plashenko

Yuliia Volchkova

Yuliia Volchkova

Boris Aleksandrov

Boris Aleksandrov

Alyosha Kuznetsov

Alyosha Kuznetsov

Lyudmyla Travnykova

Lyudmyla Travnykova

Tetiana Sheliha

Tetiana Sheliha

Aleksandr Kusch

Aleksandr Kusch

Oleksii Bohdanovych

Oleksii Bohdanovych

Alexey Zubkov

Alexey Zubkov

Leonid Boyko

Leonid Boyko

Alena Korovka

Alena Korovka

Serhii Smeian

Serhii Smeian

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