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Three Stories

A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor’s five-year-old daughter “all the abomination of her lumpen existence”. The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic.

1997 |1h 49m |  Crime, Comedy, Drama

Cast

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Sergei Makovetsky

Tikhomirov

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Leonid Kushnir

Gena

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Zhan Daniel

Venya

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Renata Litvinova

Ophelia

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Ivan Okhlobystin

doctor

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Oleg Tabakov

old man

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Natalya Buzko

girl in the maternity hospital

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Oleksandra Svenska

mother

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Aleksei Shevchenkov

homosexual

More Details

Status

Released

Language

Russian

Budget

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Revenue

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