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The Humble Cemetery (1989)
Directed by Aleksandr Itygilov
Overview
The main character Vorobei is a professional grave digger and alcohol addict, who runs away from hospital to dig graves instead of treating his head broken by his brother. He comes to cemetery and keeps on working, instead of his friends’ advice to stay in the hospital. The world of death turns out to be surrounded by corruption, satanic money-making, cemetery mafia and lots of vodka.
Length 103 minutes
Actors
Vladimir Gostyukhin | Lev Durov | Nina Ruslanova | Lev Borisov | Olga Mateshko | Aleksey Serebryakov | Viktor Avilov | Виталий Шаповалов | Vsevolod Shilovsky | Boris Galkin | Nikolai Pastukhov | Mariya Vinogradova | Aleksey Zaytsev | Oleg Sevastyanov | Valeriy Prokhorov | Victor Pomortcev | Aleksandr Yanvaryov | Aleksandr Milyutin | Arkady Vysotsky | Sergey Solovyov | Vladimir Shikhov | Vladimir Karasyov | Olga Grigoryeva | Vasili Kravtsov | Jeyhun Mirzayev | Viktor Rozhdestvenskiy | Oleg Savosin | Manefa Sobolevskaya