The Funeral Party
movie
Released December 14, 2006
Overview
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?
Cast
Aleksandr Abdulov
as
Alik
Elena Rufanova
as
Irina Pearson
Anna Dvorzhetskaya
as
Tishort
Anna Aleksakhina
as
Nina
Vladimir Kachan
as
Fima Gruber
Vladimir Eryomin
as
Libin
Liya Akhedzhakova
as
Marya Ignatyevna
Boris Klyuev
as
Lyova Gotlib
Aleksey Kolgan
as
Father Viktor
Irina Loseva
as
Faina
Claudia Boczar
as
Dzhoyka
Yan Tsapnik
as
Rabbi Menashe
Crew
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
as
Author
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Gennady Karyuk
as
Director of Photography
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Aleksandr Karyuk
as
Director of Photography
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Marina Kapustina
as
Producer
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Jury Romanenko
as
Producer
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Aleksey Denisko
as
Editor
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Viktor Petrov
as
Production Design
Regina Khomskaya
as
Costume Design
Vladimir Fokin
as
Director
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Grigori Ryazhsky
as
Writer
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
as
Writer
Vladimir Dashkevich
as
Original Music Composer