A glimpse into the new capitalist Ukraine, where there's plenty of work for members of the mafia and for free-lance hitmen, though none for the linguistic scholar whose wife (gainfully employed in advertising) is cheating on him. Pithy expression of the hero's reduced circumstances: fishing through his pockets, he can find nothing for the beggar woman in the street. The Bulworth-ian plot developments -- he hires an assassin to end his misery, then changes his mind -- are less than riveting, but sufficient to fend off sleep. With Alexandre Lazarev, Tatiana Krivitska, Eugen Pachin; directed by Vyacheslav Krishtofovich. (1997) — Duncan Shepherd
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