''A Friend of the Deceased'' ( uk, Приятель небіжчика) is a 1997 Ukrainian
drama film
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directed by
Viacheslav Kryshtofovych Viacheslav is a Slavonic masculine given name (also can be transliterated as Vyacheslav or Viatcheslav). Notable people with the name include:
*Viacheslav Aliabiev (1934–2009), Ukrainian professional footballer
* Viacheslav Belavkin, professor in ...
.
The film was selected as the Ukrainian entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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at the
70th Academy Awards
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, but was not accepted as a nominee.
[Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]
Plot
The era of "wild capitalism" was gaining momentum when Anatoly was abandoned by his wife. He was young, handsome, and intelligent, with knowledge of a foreign language, but for some reason he did not fit into modern life, which was completely incomprehensible to him. A meeting with his former classmate Dima, who was successfully trading in a commercial kiosk, became his Ariadne's thread in the world of new morality. Life becomes like a movie. Anatoliy's rash and frivolous act became the first link in a chain of events that resulted in the murder of a man who was himself a hired killer. This man's little son called Anatoliy dad… How will Anatoliy behave after that? Will he become a father to the boy or will he take the place of the killer?
Cast
* Aleksandr Lazarev Jr. as Anatoliy
* Anzhelika Nevolina as Katia
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Elena Korikova
Elena Yuryevna Korikova (russian: Еле́на Ю́рьевна Ко́рикова) is a Russian theater and television actress. She is known for her role of Anna Platonova in the television series '' Bednaya Nastya''.
Biography
Korikova wa ...
as Maryna
* Tetiana Kryvytska Stang Lund as Lena / Vika
* Yevheniy Pashin as Dima
* Serhiy Romaniuk as Ivan
* Anatoliy Mateshko as Borys
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Rostislav Yankovsky
Rostislav Ivanovich Yankovsky ( be, Расціслаў Іванавіч Янкоўскі, russian: Ростислав Иванович Янковский; 5 February 1930 – 26 June 2016) was a Belarusian actor. He was born in Odessa on 5 Feb ...
as Ihor Lvovych
Film crew
* Director of Photography: Vyacheslav Kryshtofovych
* Screenwriter: Andriy Kurkov
* Director of Photography: Vilen Kalyuta
* Production designer: Roman Adamovych
* Composer: Vladimir Hronsky
* Sound director: Heorhiy Stremovsky
See also
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References
External links
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1997 films
1997 drama films
Ukrainian drama films
Ukrainian-language films
Films based on works by Ukrainian writers
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