The Funeral Party
2006/12/14 • Released • French, English, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian
Overview
Based on the novel by Booker Prize Winner Ludmila Ulitskaya, The Funeral Party is set in August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns nursing him as he fades from this world. Their reminiscences of the dying man and of their lives in Russia are punctuated by debates and squabbles: Whom did Alik love most? Should he be baptized before he dies, as his alcoholic wife, Nina, desperately wishes, or be reconciled to the faith of his birth by a rabbi who happens to be on hand? And what will be the meaning for them of the Yeltsin putsch, which is happening across the world in their long-lost Moscow but also right before their eyes on CNN?
Director : Vladimir Fokin
Casts
Aleksandr Abdulov
Alik
Elena Rufanova
Irina Pearson
Anna Dvorzhetskaya
Tishort
Anna Aleksakhina
Nina
Vladimir Kachan
Fima Gruber
Vladimir Eryomin
Libin
Liya Akhedzhakova
Marya Ignatyevna
Boris Klyuev
Lyova Gotlib
Aleksey Kolgan
Father Viktor
Irina Loseva
Faina
Claudia Boczar
Dzhoyka
Yan Tsapnik
Rabbi Menashe
Polina Fokina
Valentina
Sergey Gabrielyan
Juan
Anna Gusarova
Lyudmila
Andris Lielais
Peter Norman
Yelena Kozhukhova
Jill Norman
Elena Melnikova
Nina's Mother
Valeriy Zhakov
Nina's Father
Vladimir Maysuradze
Rocker
Elena Antipova
Kazantseva
Irina Anokhina
Natasha
Vladimir Yavorsky
Kazantsev
Yevgeni Knyazev
Writer
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