The Suicide (Russian: Самоубийца, romanized: Samoubiytsa) is an 1990 Soviet black comedy film directed by Valery Pendrakovsky,[2] adaptation of the play of the same name by Nikolai Erdman.[3][4]
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| Directed by | Valery Pendrakovsky |
| Written by | Valery Pendrakovsky |
| Produced by | Mark Rudinstein |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Valentin Makarov |
| Music by | Edison Denisov |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Mosfilm |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | USSR |
| Language | Russian |
Cast edit
- Sergey Shakurov as Podsekalnikov
- Leonid Kuravlyov as Kalabushkin
- Aleksandr Trofimov as Aristarkh Dominikovich
- Vyacheslav Nevinny as Pugachyov
- Vladimir Menshov as Viktor Viktorovich
- Yelena Stepanenko as Cleopatra Maksimovna
- Olga Volkova as Raisa Filippovna
- Yelizaveta Nikishchina as Serafima Ilyinichna
- Igor Kashintsev as father Elpidy
- Gotlib Roninson as carver
- Valentin Gaft as entertainer
Critical response edit
Film critic Alexander Fedorov noted:
Valery Pendrakovsky is not one of the elite of Russian directing, but having the classical dramaturgy of Nikolai Erdman as a literary basis and having collected a bouquet of famous actors, he quite convincingly created on the screen a phantasmagoric world of a universal communal apartment in which every creature lives in a couple.[5]
References edit
- ^ The Suicide at the mosfilm.ru
- ^ Российский кинематограф 90-х в поисках зрителя
- ^ The Suicide at the KinoPoisk
- ^ Смерть и самоубийство
- ^ "The Suicide" (in Russian). kino-teatr.ru.
External links edit
- The Suicide at IMDb
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