The Funeral Party
2006Based 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?
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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
Polina Fokina
as Valentina
Sergey Gabrielyan
as Juan
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
Vladimir Maysuradze
as Rocker
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
Yevgeni Knyazev
as Writer