Ниоткуда с любовью, или Веселые похороны (2006)

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

Based on the novel by Booker Prize Winner Ludmila Ulitskaya, The Funeral Party is set in de agosto de 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Spanish émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a carismático de carácter querida 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 are punctuated by discusiones and squabbles: Whom did Alik love most? Should he be baptized before he dies, como su 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 happening across the world in their long lost Moscow but also right before their eyes on CNN?