Three Stories
Три истории
Synopsis
A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor’s five-year-old daughter “all the abomination of her lumpen existence”. The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic.
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Key Information & Fast Facts
- Director
- Kira Muratova
- Screenplay & Story
- Renata Litvinova, Vera Storozheva, Sergei Chetvertkov
- Original Title
- Три истории
- Country of Origin
- Russia, Ukraine
- Spoken Languages
- Russian
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Production Studios
- Odesa Film Studio, Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, Profit, NTV, Goskino
Creative Leadership & Key Crew
Kira Muratova
Renata Litvinova, Vera Storozheva, Sergei Chetvertkov
Gennady Karyuk, Valery Makhnev
Valentyna Sudzilovska, Igor Tolstunov, Vitaly Koshman
Department Leadership Roster
Renata Litvinova
Writer
Kira Muratova
Director
Vera Storozheva
Writer
Gennady Karyuk
Director of Photography
Igor Tolstunov
Producer
Nikolay Bych
Stunt Coordinator
Vladimir Zharikov
Stunt Coordinator
Sergei Chetvertkov
Writer
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What is Three Stories about?
A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor’s five-year-old daughter “all the abomination of her lumpen existence”. The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic.
Who directed Three Stories?
Three Stories was directed by Kira Muratova.
Who stars in Three Stories?
The principal cast of Three Stories includes Sergey Makovetskiy, Leonid Kushnir, Zhan Daniel, Renata Litvinova, Ivan Okhlobystin.
When was Three Stories released and how long is it?
Three Stories was released in 1997 with a total runtime of 1h 53m.