The Suicide (film)

The Suicide
The Suicide
Directed by	Valery Pendrakovsky
Written by	Valery Pendrakovsky
Produced by	Mark Rudinstein
Starring	Sergey Shakurov; Leonid Kuravlyov; Aleksandr Trofimov;
Cinematography	Valentin Makarov
Music by	Edison Denisov
Production; company	Mosfilm
Distributed by	Mosfilm
Release date	1990;
Running time	90 minutes
Country	USSR
Language	Russian

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]

Cast

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

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

^ 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

The Suicide at IMDb

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[1] The Suicide at the mosfilm.ru

[2] Российский кинематограф 90-х в поисках зрителя

[3] The Suicide at the KinoPoisk

[4] Смерть и самоубийство

[5] "The Suicide" (in Russian). kino-teatr.ru.

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