Ниоткуда с любовью, или Веселые похороны (2006)

• 55%
• 2006
• Drame
• Romance
• 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 French émigrés gathers round the high horse of an artist named Alik, a charismatique character beloved 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 France are ponctué by debates and squabbles: Whom did Alik love most? Should he be rebaptisés 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 happening across the world in their long-lost Moscow but also right before their eyes on CNN?