Three Stories
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.
Cast
Sergey Makovetskiy
as Tikhomirov
Leonid Kushnir
as Gena
Zhan Daniel
as Venya
Renata Litvinova
as Ophelia
Ivan Okhlobystin
as doctor
Oleg Tabakov
as old man
Liliya Murlykina
as little girl
Natalya Buzko
as girl in the maternity hospital
Oleksandra Svenska
as mother
Aleksei Shevchenkov
as homosexual
