The Suicide (film)

The Suicide (Самоубийца) is an 1990 Soviet black comedy film directed by Valery Pendrakovsky, adaptation of the play of the same name by Nikolai Erdman.

Cast

 * Sergey Shakurov as Podsekalnikov
 * Leonid Kuravlyov as Kalabushkin
 * Aleksandr Trofimov as Aristarkh Dominikovich
 * Vyacheslav Nevinny as Pugachyov
 * Vladimir Menshov as Viktor Viktorovich
 * Yelena Stepanenko as Cleopatra Maksimovna
 * Olga Volkova as Raisa Filippovna
 * Yelizaveta Nikishchina as Serafima Ilyinichna
 * Igor Kashintsev as father Elpidy
 * Gotlib Roninson as carver
 * Valentin Gaft as entertainer

Critical response
Film critic Alexander Fedorov noted: "Valery Pendrakovsky is not one of the elite of Russian directing, but having the classical dramaturgy of Nikolai Erdman as a literary basis and having collected a bouquet of famous actors, he quite convincingly created on the screen a phantasmagoric world of a universal communal apartment in which  every creature lives in a couple."