Summary A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor's five-year-old daughter "all the abomination of her lumpen existence". The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic. View more details
Directed : Kira Muratova
Written : Sergey Chetvertkov Igor Bozhko Yevgeni Golubenko
Stars : Sergey Makovetskiy Renata Litvinova Leonid Kushnir Zhan Daniel
Genres : Comedy Crime
Release date : Mar 12, 1997
Countries of origin : Russia Ukraine
Official sites : Official Russian Site
Language : Russian
Filming locations : Odessa, Ukraine
Production companies : NTV NTV-Profit Russian State Committee for Cinematography
Summary A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor's five-year-old daughter "all the abomination of her lumpen existence". The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic. View more details
Genres : Comedy Crime
Release date : Mar 12, 1997
Countries of origin : Russia Ukraine
Official sites : Official Russian Site
Language : Russian
Filming locations : Odessa, Ukraine
Production companies : NTV NTV-Profit Russian State Committee for Cinematography