Synopsis
Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquaintance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Instead, however, he arranges for the hit to be placed on himself. Before the contract is executed, he develops a relationship with a prostitute, and then changes his mind. In order to survive he takes the obvious course of action, which turns out to have possibly been unnecessary, and then he must deal with the guilt.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes64%
12 audience votes
Key crew
- Leonid BoykoDirector
- Viacheslav KryshtofovychDirector
- Andrii KurkovWriter
- Volodymyr GronskyOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Aleksandr Lazarev Jr.Anatoli
- Anzhelika NevolinaKatia
- Elena KorikovaMarina
- Tetyana Kryvytska Stang LundLena / Vika (as Tatyana Krivitskaya)
- Evgeniy PashinDima
- Serhii RomaniukIvan
- Kostiantyn KostyshynKostya
- Anatoli MateshkoBoris
- Valentina Ilyashenkofemale bartender
- Rostislav YankovskyIgor Lvovich
- Aleksey GoncharenkoVadim Semyonovich
- Elena StefanskaAlisa
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Themes
depressionprostitutehusband wife relationshipbased on novel or bookhitmanurban settingunemploymenttranslatorkyiv, ukraineironycheating wife