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.
Stars: Sergei Makovetsky, Leonid Kushnir, Zhan Daniel, Renata Litvinova, Ivan Okhlobystin, Oleg Tabakov
Crew: Kira Muratova (Director), Renata Litvinova (Writer), Vera Storozheva (Writer), Gennady Karyuk (Director of Photography), Viktoriya Kurnosenko (Makeup Artist), Emmanuil Segal (Sound Director)
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Language: Pусский
Studio: Goskino USSR, Odesa Film Studio, Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, Profit
Runtime: 109 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Mar 13, 1997
IMDb: 4.7
Keywords:woman director
