A Friend of the Deceased (1997)

overview : 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.

Release Date : Sep 10, 1997

Runtime : 1h 40m

Genre : Drama  Comedy  

Companies : Compagnie des Films, Compagnie Est-Ouest, CNC, Dovzhenko Film Studios, Kazakhfilm Studios

Countries : France, Kazakhstan, Ukraine

Keywords : prostitute, hitman, translator