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The Funeral Party (2006) [N/A]

Featuring:
Aleksandr Abdulov, Anna Aleksakhina, Elena Rufanova

Written by:
Grigory Ryazhsky
Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Directed by:
Vladimir Fokin


Release Date:
December 14, 2006

Original Title:
Ниоткуда с любовью, или весёлые похороны

Alternate Titles:
From Nowhere with Love, or The Funeral Party

Genres:
Drama | Romance

Production Companies:
Fora Film

Production Countries:
Russia

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Overview from TheMovieDB

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?

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Rankings and Honors

The Funeral Party (2006) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 5.2/10

Performers

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Production

Author:
Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Costume Design:
Regina Khomskaya

Director:
Vladimir Fokin

Director of Photography:
Gennady Karyuk
Aleksandr Karyuk

Editor:
Aleksey Denisko

Original Music Composer:
Vladimir Dashkevich

Producer:
Marina Kapustina
Jury Romanenko

Production Design:
Viktor Petrov

Writer:
Grigori Ryazhsky
Lyudmila Ulitskaya

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