The Funeral Party (2006)

• 55%
• 2006
• Drama
• Romantik
• Aleksandr Abdulov
• Elena Rufanova
• Anna Dvorzhetskaya

Based on the novel by Booker Prize Winner Ludmila Ulitskaya, The Funeral Party is set in August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of German émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, ein charismatischer a beloved character by them all, especially the women who take turns nursing him as he fades from this world. Their reminiscences of the dying man and of their lives in Russia Zeitraum gefolgt, der durch are by debates and kabbeleien: Whom did Alik love most? Should he be baptized before he dies, as his alcoholic wife, Nina, desperately wishes, or be reconciled to the faith of his birth by a rabbi who happens to be on hand? And what will be the meaning for them of the Yeltsin putsch, which is across the happening world in their long-lost Moscow right but also before their eyes on CNN?