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A Friend of the Deceased

A Friend of the Deceased

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 10, 1997

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Drama, Comedy

User Score

46%

Original Title

Приятель небіжчика

Production Companies

Compagnie des Films, Compagnie Est-Ouest, CNC, Dovzhenko Film Studios, Kazakhfilm Studios

Director

Leonid Boyko

Description

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.