Three Stories (1997)
Original title: Три истории
Three Stories is a 1997 Russian-language crime movie directed by Kira Muratova, with a running time of 1h 53m. It stars Sergey Makovetskiy, Leonid Kushnir and Zhan Daniel.
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.
Quick answers
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.
When was Three Stories released?
Three Stories was released on 13 March 1997.
How long is Three Stories?
Three Stories runs 1h 53m.
Who made Three Stories?
Three Stories was directed by Kira Muratova.
Where can I watch Three Stories?
Three Stories is available on Criterion Channel.
Where to watch Three Stories
Stream: Criterion Channel
Cast
- Sergey Makovetskiy as Tikhomirov
- Leonid Kushnir as Gena
- Zhan Daniel as Venya
- Renata Litvinova as Ophelia
- Ivan Okhlobystin as doctor
- Oleg Tabakov as old man
- Liliya Murlykina as little girl
- Natalya Buzko as girl in the maternity hospital
- Alexandra Svenskaya as mother
- Aleksei Shevchenkov as homosexual
- Yevhen Holubenko
- Sofiya Belska