The Funeral Party

Synopsis

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?

Main Cast

Aleksandr Abdulov

Alik

Age : 54 | Popularity : 21%

Elena Rufanova

Irina Pearson

Age : N/A | Popularity : 8%

Anna Dvorzhetskaya

Tishort

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Anna Aleksakhina

Nina

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Vladimir Kachan

Fima Gruber

Age : N/A | Popularity : 16%

Vladimir Eryomin

Libin

Age : N/A | Popularity : 7%

Liya Akhedzhakova

Marya Ignatyevna

Age : N/A | Popularity : 24%

Boris Klyuev

Lyova Gotlib

Age : N/A | Popularity : 51%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Vladimir Fokin
Writing	Writer	Grigori Ryazhsky Lyudmila Ulitskaya
	Author	Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Camera	Director of Photography	Gennady Karyuk Aleksandr Karyuk
Production	Producer	Marina Kapustina Jury Romanenko
Editing	Editor	Aleksey Denisko
Art	Production Design	Viktor Petrov
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Regina Khomskaya
Sound	Original Music Composer	Vladimir Dashkevich
Department	Role	Name

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