A Friend of the Deceased(1997)

movie - first aired/released 1997-09-10 - 100 min - audience 5.2

Drama, Comedy, Romance

Directed by Leonid Boyko, Viacheslav Kryshtofovych

Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquaintance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Instead, however, he arranges for the hit to be placed on himself. Before the contract is executed, he develops a relationship with a prostitute, and then changes his mind. In order to survive he takes the obvious course of action, which turns out to have possibly been unnecessary, and then he must deal with the guilt.