Three Stories (1997)

Three Stories (1997) poster

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.

Director: Kira Muratova
Genre: Crime, Comedy, Drama
Runtime: 113 min
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Cast

Screenplay

Cinematography: Gennady Karyuk
Production: Goskino USSR, Odesa Film Studio, Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, Profit, NTV
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Language: Pусский
Original Language: ru

Keywords

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Frequently Asked Questions

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?
Three Stories stars Sergey Makovetskiy, Leonid Kushnir, Zhan Daniel, Renata Litvinova, Ivan Okhlobystin, Oleg Tabakov.
How long is Three Stories?
Three Stories has a runtime of 1h 53m (113 minutes).
What genre is Three Stories?
Three Stories is a Crime, Comedy, Drama film.
Where was Three Stories produced?
Three Stories was produced in Russia, Ukraine.