The Funeral Party
2006, Russian. Directed by Vladimir Fokin.
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?
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- Russian
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Cast & crew
- Vladimir FokinDirector
- Aleksandr AbdulovAlik
- Elena RufanovaIrina Pearson
- Anna DvorzhetskayaTishort
- Anna AleksakhinaNina
- Vladimir KachanFima Gruber
- Vladimir EryominLibin
- Liya AkhedzhakovaMarya Ignatyevna
- Boris KlyuevLyova Gotlib
- Aleksey KolganFather Viktor
- Irina LosevaFaina
- Claudia BoczarDzhoyka
- Yan TsapnikRabbi Menashe
Details
- Released
- 14 December 2006
- Original title
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- Country
- Russia
- Written by
- Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Grigori Ryazhsky
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The Funeral Party isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 14 December 2006. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Funeral Party?
The Funeral Party (2006) was directed by Vladimir Fokin and stars Aleksandr Abdulov, Elena Rufanova, Anna Dvorzhetskaya.