A Friend of the Deceased
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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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.