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Mechanical Suite (Russian: Механическая сюита, romanized: Mekhanicheskaya syuita) is a 2001 Russian comedy-drama film directed by Dmitry Meskhiev.[1][2][3]

Mechanical Suite
Directed by	Dmitry Meskhiev
Written by	Gennadiy Ostrovskiy
Produced by	Olga Vasilieva Svetlana Slityuk
Starring	Mikhail Porechenkov Sergei Garmash Konstantin Khabensky Sergei Makovetsky Andrei Zibrov
Cinematography	Sergei Machilsky
Edited by	Tamara Lipartia
Music by	Leonid Fyodorov Svyatoslav Kurashov Vladimir Volkov
Release date	2001 (2001)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

The film is based on the story Brothers by Janusz Głowacki.[4]

Plot

Kolya (Sergei Golovkin), an employee from the patent department of a plant, goes to Lykovo near St. Petersburg for the weekend and dies of a heart attack. The administration of the plant decides to transport the body to the homeland of the deceased for burial. For this purpose two people are sent on a business trip: Markerants (Sergei Garmash), who at any time can develop an ulcer, and business-minded Mityagin (Mikhail Porechenkov).

On the way, Mityagin offers Markerants to drink a toast in the dining car for Kolya, for destiny, for their country. All ends with Markerants giving all the money collected by the plant for Kolya's burial to some woman named Lyuyba (Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya).

Having lost their travel money, they go on an adventure and drive with the stiff in a normal train compartment. A chance passenger, Edouard (Konstantin Khabensky), who has stolen an item worth $50,000 from a factory, drops his immensely heavy suitcase on the dead man's head. Edouard ends up thinking that he is the culprit in Kolya's death. To get rid of the evidence, he throws the corpse out the window. The greedy Mityagin decides to take advantage of the situation and demands money so that he will not to give out the "murderer". This leads to everyone subsequently finding themselves under the persecution of the mafia and the police.

Cast

• Mikhail Porechenkov as Mityagin
• Sergei Garmash as Markerants
• Konstantin Khabensky as Edouard
• Sergei Makovetsky as operative officer Plyuganovskiy
• Andrei Zibrov as machinist Viktor
• Oksana Bazilevich as striptease dancer Asya
• Aleksandr Bashirov as man in a police car
• Zoya Buryak as beer seller
• Anna Geller
• Sergei Golovkin as deceased Kolya
• Yevgenia Dobrovolskaya as Lyuba
• Yury Kuznetsov as pathologist
• Irina Rozanova as Olga
• Aleksandr Fatyushin as Major Lebedev
• Zinaida Sharko as Plyuganovskiy's mother

Awards

• Evgenia Dobrovolskaya received the Best Supporting Actress prize at the Nika (2001),[5] Golden Aries (2001) [6] and "Constellation" (2001) awards.[7]

References

External links

Mechanical Suite at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] Mechanical Suite

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[ru] Механическая сюита

«Механическая сюита» (рабочее название — «Связанные»[1]) — российский художественный фильм режиссёра Дмитрия Месхиева[2], снятый по мотивам одноимённой повести Сергея Чихачёва[3][4], при этом титры утверждают, что картина основана на фактах из газет[5]. Премьера фильма состоялась в июне 2001 года на кинофестивале «Кинотавр»[6].

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