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The Funeral Party

2 average rating
2
French / 0 MIN. / 2006

The Genres

The Synopsis

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?

The Cast

Aleksandr AbdulovElena RufanovaAnna DvorzhetskayaAnna AleksakhinaVladimir KachanVladimir EryominLiya AkhedzhakovaBoris KlyuevAleksey KolganIrina LosevaClaudia BoczarYan TsapnikPolina FokinaSergey GabrielyanAnna GusarovaDmitriy LomovskiyBoris LvovichMaksim AfanasevMikhail GeorgiuBob TsimbaAndris LielaisYelena KozhukhovaElena MelnikovaValeriy ZhakovVladimir MaysuradzeElena AntipovaIrina AnokhinaVadim RodionovGrigoriy GryaznovYevgeniy BaskakovOleg KorshunovMarc C. CancassiVladimir YavorskyYevgeni Knyazev

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