A Friend of the Deceased

Plot Summary

Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquaintance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Instead, however, he arranges for the hit to be placed on himself. Before the contract is executed, he develops a relationship with a prostitute, and then changes his mind. In order to survive he takes the obvious course of action, which turns out to have possibly been unnecessary, and then he must deal with the guilt.

Top Cast

Aleksandr Lazarev Jr. Anatoli

Anzhelika Nevolina Katia

Elena Korikova Marina

Tetyana Kryvytska Stang Lund Lena / Vika (as Tatyana Krivitskaya)

Evgeniy Pashin Dima