Completed - RUSSIAN - Comedy, Crime - 154 minutes
Year of production : 2004 Director(s) : Kira MURATOVA Writer(s) : Sergey CHETVERTKOV, Yevgeni GOLUBENKO, Kira MURATOVA Cast : Georgiy DELIEV, Alla DEMIDOVA, Renata LITVINOVA, Nina RUSLANOVA Producer(s) : Sergey CHLIYANTS (PYGMALION PRODUCTION FILM STUDIO)
A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from themA former nurse, Lyuba, seeking marriage through newspaper personal ads, is bilked by a stranger whom she mistakes for her new date. Lyuba’s elderly, well-to-do girlfriend, Anna Sergeyevna is defrauded in a different fashion: having placed a newspaper ad for a piano tuner, she is entrapped by Andrey, who is not only an excellent tuner and musician, but also a reasonably good petty thief and scam artist. Andrey and his current lover, Lina, attempting to further secure the women’s trust by returning Lyuba’s money, which had been scammed yet again by a second potential husband cum con-artist, place their own fake personal ad in a newspaper so as to locate the suspect. Having returned Liuba’s stolen money, Andrei finally swindles both Lyuba and Anna Sergeyevna through an elaborate bank forgery scheme—in a word, a portrait of normal human nature à la Muratova.
Country(ies) : UKRAINE, RUSSIA