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 Russian émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic 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 Russia are punctuated by debates and squabbles: 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 happening across the world in their long-lost Moscow but also right before their eyes on CNN?
as Alik
as Irina Pearson
as Tishort
as Nina
as Fima Gruber
as Libin
as Marya Ignatyevna
as Lyova Gotlib
as Father Viktor
as Faina
as Dzhoyka
as Rabbi Menashe
as Valentina
as Juan
as Lyudmila
as Dima Rusakov
as Barman Aron
as Colleague of Nina's Father
as Supervisor
as Barman Goliath
as Peter Norman
as Jill Norman
as Nina's Mother
as Nina's Father
as Rocker
as Kazantseva
as Natasha
as Little Alik
as Jazzman
as Jazzman
as Jazzman
as Neighbor
as Kazantsev
as Writer
