Three Stories (1997)

  • NR
  • 03/13/1997 (RU)
  • Crime, Comedy, Drama
  • 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.

Kira Muratova

Director

Renata Litvinova

Writer

Vera Storozheva

Writer

Sergei Chetvertkov

Writer

Cast

Sergei Makovetsky's headshot

Sergei Makovetsky

Tikhomirov
Leonid Kushnir's headshot

Leonid Kushnir

Gena
Zhan Daniel's headshot

Zhan Daniel

Venya
Renata Litvinova's headshot

Renata Litvinova

Ophelia
Ivan Okhlobystin's headshot

Ivan Okhlobystin

doctor
Oleg Tabakov's headshot

Oleg Tabakov

old man
Liliya Murlykina's headshot

Liliya Murlykina

little girl
Natalya Buzko's headshot

Natalya Buzko

girl in the maternity hospital

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