A Friend of the Deceased
Synopsis
Life is tough these days in Kiev if you're no good at hunting down the mighty dollar. And Anatoli isn't! He's an intellectual that the new "Capitalist" jungle has left out in the cold. To survive, he goes from odd job to odd job. Unsurprisingly, his wife winds up leaving him for another. But Anatoli hasn't the stomach to react: sickened by it all, he lapses into passivity and chooses suicide. Yet, what do you know? He has the chance to organise his own suicide, at the hand of another! Hit men are ten-a-penny in Kiev. Yet, once again, he fails... It's the beginning of a series of misunderstandings and bizarre encounters which may help him fit into this savage world. But can an honest intellectual ever be cured?
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (6)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Compagnie des Films
- Co-production : Est-Ouest Distribution
- Foreign production companies : Studio National Dovjenko, Aïmanova, Kazakhfilm Studios
- Film exports/foreign sales : Celluloid Dreams
- French distribution : Celluloid Dreams
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : Jacky Ouaknine
- Screenwriter : Andreï Kourkov
- Director of Photography : Vilen Kolouta
- Music Composer : Vladimir Gronski
- Editor : Elvira Soumovskaïa
- Sound Recordist : Gueorgui Stremovski
- Costume designer : Lioudmila Serdinova
- Press Attachés (film) : Thierry Lenouvel, Isabelle Buron
- Production Designer : Roman Adamovitch
- Still Photographer : Vitali Zaporojtchenko
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : Ukrainian
- Coproducer countries : Ukraine, France
- Original French-language productions : No
- Nationality : Majority French (Ukraine, France)
- Production year : 1997
- French release : 05/09/1997
- Runtime : 1 h 40 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 89.943
- Visa issue date : 07/10/1997
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Mono
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About
"I am sure the story of this film speaks for most cultivated people living in lands within the former Soviet Union. In the absence of liberty, people banded together. Human warmth existed. Suddenly, freedom came, and with it came coldness and solitude. We realized that not everyone was ready for it, and that there was little room for the weak. Yet, not everyone can be strong. In Ukrainian, the word "to love" and to "feel sorry for" are sometimes considered as synonyms. So, I made this film for those I feel sorry for, for those I love." (Viatcheslav Krichtofovitch)
