Synopsis
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.
Facts
Awards
100 best films in the history of Ukrainian cinema
Setting
Odesa
Production
NTV-Profit, State Committee for Cinematography, NTV, Odesa Film Studio
Original language
Russian
Stills
Festival History
- Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2018 generic
- International Film Festival Rotterdam 2013 generic
- Berlin International Film Festival 1997 generic
