Grigori Ryazhsky

When a mute makeup/special effects artist working on a low-budget slasher film gets locked in a dilapidated Moscow movie studio late one night, she thinks she witnesses the making of a snuff film. Thus begins a night of terror.

A story about the life of several girls who came from outskirts of Ukrainian provincial town Makeevka to Moscow.

A group of young successful women is getting robbed in the house of one of them.

Julia runs away with her sister's fiance, but the future is preparing for her reckoning.

The film takes place over the course of thirty years. In the center of the story are the family members of the famous Soviet playwright Ilya Kazarnovsky, his son Lev Kazarnovsky and four women - four Loves - Lyubov Lvovna, Lyuba, Lyubasha and Lyuba Malaya. With each of the heroines, the only man in this story develops his own relationship, his own, if you will, intricate kind of love…

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?

When you love, your life changes beyond recognition. When you are loved, you may not even suspect it. But if your life turns into a continuous nightmare, if every minute you are waiting for news of the death of another loved one - such love cannot be overlooked. It is only necessary to calculate the lover. And as soon as possible.