A Friend of the Deceased

A Friend of the Deceased (1997) is a drama, comedy film directed by Viacheslav Kryshtofovych, Leonid Boyko rated 4.9/10.

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.

Cast

Aleksandr Lazarev Jr.

Anatoli

Anzhelika Nevolina

Katia

Elena Korikova

Marina

Tetyana Kryvytska Stang Lund

Lena / Vika (as Tatyana Krivitskaya)

Evgeniy Pashin

Dima

Serhii Romaniuk

Ivan

Kostiantyn Kostyshyn

Kostya

Anatoli Mateshko

Boris

Valentina Ilyashenko

female bartender

Rostislav Yankovsky

Igor Lvovich

Aleksey Goncharenko

Vadim Semyonovich

Elena Stefanska

Alisa