All the Truth About Schelps

Jul 3, 2004

2h 9m

★ 7.0

Overview

Three men are united around the coffin of a woman they have never seen before. They have been summoned to the morgue by their old school-friend, now a factory boss, who promised the old, lonely lady a decent funeral.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Kinoglaz

M2F

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Cast

Andrey Speransky (as K. Tukaev)

Kamil Tukaev

Tolyan Feldman (as A. Shlyamin)

Aleksey Shlyamin

Zema

Leonid Okunyov

Danya

Dmitry Koshkin

Borenka

Sergey Gamov

Sophia

Irina Yazvinskaya

Veronika Belkovskaya

Sergey Belov

Sergey Bondarev

Sergey Fedorov

Sergey Kolesov

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