To Kill the Evening
2003-12-31 · 94 min · Not rated
Certain circumstances force the successful businessman Viktor to stay in a small seaside city longer than he had planned. It’s the New Year’s Eve. To “kill the evening”, the hero gets acquainted with a young salesgirl, Lyuba. Quite unexpectedly, they fall passionately and fatally in love… A lyrical variation on the theme of a gallant prince and a poor Cinderella, starring the inveterate lady-killer of Russian screen Sergey Zhigunov (“The Princess on a Bean”) and the young primadonna of the Aleksandrinsky Theatre Yuliya Marchenko (“Swan Paradise”), with the musical accompaniment of the famous Gypsy group “Loiko”.
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- Directors
- Elena Zhigaeva
- Production companies
- Pelikan-film
- Countries
- Russia
- Status
- Released
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Aleksey Panin
Sergey Zhigunov
Nataliya Vdovina
Tatyana Agafonova
Irina Shevchuk
Aleksandr Lyrchikov
Yuliya Marchenko
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