The Funeral Party

The Funeral Party

Drama, Romance | Dec. 14, 2006

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?

The Funeral Party

Drama, Romance | Dec. 14, 2006

The Funeral Party
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?
Producers Fora Film
Original title Ниоткуда с любовью, или весёлые похороны
Directors Vladimir Fokin
Writers Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Grigori Ryazhsky

Cast

Elena Rufanova

as Irina Pearson

Anna Dvorzhetskaya

as Tishort

Vladimir Kachan

as Fima Gruber

Vladimir Eryomin

as Libin

Liya Akhedzhakova

as Marya Ignatyevna

Boris Klyuev

as Lyova Gotlib

Alexey Kolgan

as Father Viktor

Irina Loseva

as Faina

Claudia Boczar

as Dzhoyka

Yan Tsapnik

as Rabbi Menashe

Polina Fokina

as Valentina

Evgeniy Knyazev

as Writer

Anna Gusarova

as Lyudmila

Dmitriy Lomovskiy

as Dima Rusakov

Boris Lvovich

as Barman Aron

Maksim Afanasev

as Colleague of Nina's Father

Mikhail Georgiu

as Supervisor

Bob Tsimba

as Barman Goliath

Andris Lielais

as Peter Norman

Yelena Kozhukhova

as Jill Norman

Elena Melnikova

as Nina's Mother

Valeriy Zhakov

as Nina's Father

Elena Antipova

as Kazantseva

Irina Anokhina

as Natasha

Vadim Rodionov

as Little Alik

Grigoriy Gryaznov

as Jazzman

Yevgeniy Baskakov

as Jazzman

Oleg Korshunov

as Jazzman

Marc C. Cancassi

as Neighbor

Vladimir Yavorsky

as Kazantsev