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Three Stories(1997)
Status: Released
Date: 1997-03-13
63%
15 Votes
Time: 1h 49m
Overview:
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.
Languages: Russian.
Countries:
Russia,
Ukraine
ProductionCompanies: 
Profit
Movie: Three Stories
Top 10 Billed Cast
Сергей Маковецкий
Tikhomirov
Leonid Kushnir
Gena
Жан Даниэль
Venya
Рената Литвинова
Ophelia
Иван Охлобыстин
doctor
Олег Табаков
old man
Наталья Бузько
girl in the maternity hospital
Александра Свенская
mother
Алексей Шевченков
homosexual
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Overview
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.
Release Date
1997-03-13
Average
6.3
Rating:
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