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A Friend of the Deceased

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Unable to adapt to a post-Communist Ukraine after losing his job and learning that his wife is leaving him for another man, Anatoli (Alexandre Lazarev) decides to commit suicide by hiring a hit man to kill him. But, when he falls for young prostitute Vika (Tatiana Krivitskaia) on the night he's supposed to die, he suddenly has second thoughts and tries to cancel the assassination, eventually hiring a second hit man to kill the first one before he tracks down Anatoli.

Critics Reviews

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 08/26/2005
3/5
Leonard Schwarz Palo Alto Weekly 05/20/2003
2.5/4
Rob Blackwelder SPLICEDWire 01/01/2000
2/4
Brian Webster Apollo Guide 01/01/2000
72/100
Harvey S. Karten Compuserve 01/01/2000
8/10
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01/13/2010 Didn't think I had seen it and ended up going through it twice...with a decade gap in viewing I think but it is worth it. See more 03/26/2009 an enjoyable drama from Ukraine. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Leonid Boyko

Director

Vyacheslav Krishtofovich

Director

Alexandre Lazarev

Anatoli

Tatiana Krivitskaia

Lena

Evgueni Pachin

Dima

Elena Korikova

Marina

Movie Info

Synopsis Unable to adapt to a post-Communist Ukraine after losing his job and learning that his wife is leaving him for another man, Anatoli (Alexandre Lazarev) decides to commit suicide by hiring a hit man to kill him. But, when he falls for young prostitute Vika (Tatiana Krivitskaia) on the night he's supposed to die, he suddenly has second thoughts and tries to cancel the assassination, eventually hiring a second hit man to kill the first one before he tracks down Anatoli.
Director
Leonid Boyko, Vyacheslav Krishtofovich
Producer
Jacky Ouaknine, Pierre Rival
Screenwriter
Andrey Kurkov
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
Russian
Box Office (Gross USA)
$211.3K
Runtime
1h 45m