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“Yes, someone has said truly about suiciders: until they carry out their desire, no one believes them; and when they do, no one regrets them”.
Ivan Turgenev
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PLOT Several suicide cases have been going through the department of psychological crime analysis lately. Andrey Stahov, the chief specialist, reveals a certain pattern in the aforementioned acts of suicide, even though they are different. Viktor Plugov, a journalist, is found dead; he took his own life. It turns out, that it has already been the fifth suicide that was committed under the same circumstances. It strikes him as suspicious of the fact that someone is trying to make murders look like suicidal deaths. Moreover, large sums of money have been withdrawn from the accounts of the deceased on the eve of their deaths. Andrey Stahov gets down to investigation. He was invited to take charge of the newly established department of psychological crime analysis. He came from Saint Petersburg with his wife Olga and his 20-year-old daughter Kristina. Andrey interrogates with the relatives and friends of the “victims”, with the people who were closely related to them. Herewith he obtains much factual information about private lives of the “victims” that have been kept from the official crime investigation. He follows a certain trail and submerges himself in the atmosphere of unexpectedness and mystery. Andrey notices a trace of an unknown object on the desk in Plugov’s study. He also finds a shiver of glass on the floor, but there was nothing broken in the room. As a result of a conversation with Tamara, Plugov’s wife, it becomes known that there was a vase with flowers on the journalist’s desk right before his death. That vase and the flowers are nowhere to be found. Andrej already can tell quite clearly that it is no suicide, and there is someone else involved in the crime.
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At the same time, Andrey tries to counterbalance his family problems: his own daughter makes numerous attempts of killing herself, and his wife, unable to control her emotions and weaknesses, increasingly finds sanctuary in alcohol. After a few failed attempts of treatment in Saint Petersburg Andrey and Olga put their daughter in one of the best private clinic in Moscow. Coming through a serious psychotrauma, which happened to her while studying at the university (during a party a drunk course mate raped her), Kristina experiences psychological problems, such as apathy, depression and suicidal thoughts. The head of the private facility is Marina Nikolaevna, who is deaf since birth. Sign language interpreter Vika helps helps Marina Nikolaevna to communicate with colleagues and patients. Marina Nikolaevna has a son, Daniil. He is 40 and works as an icon-painter. He’s a frequent visitor to his mother’s clinic. He has an affair with Rita, one of the doctors, who is in love with him. Daniel seems to love Rita too but actually he is just using her for his own ends. She steals illicit drugs for him. Daniil is the mysterious person responsible for the suicides, he is the one Stahov is looking for. People driven to distraction and disappointed with their lives turn to Daniil. He organizes their suicides for money. But there’s more to it than just money. He believes that this way he punishes the weak. He punishes those people, who put their cowardice, weakness, indecision before all else: before their relatives and friends who need them, before their own lives… He does not give them any chance to change their mind. It is due to his past childhood insult, as his own father killed himself, leaving his son and wife alone. Hatred is what drives him.
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Being an icon artist , he portrays the dead as martyrs. It is a passion of his. Who else, if not those people who has drunk their cup of suffering and pain to the end , can incorporate the holy martyrdom that Daniil needs for his icons.. By some quirk of fate Andrey’s and Daniel’s paths cross ; the criminal and the investigator meet. Stahov comes to visit his daughter Kristina in clinic. Just at this very time, Daniil brings the icons that his mother promised to a familiar priest. Suddenly, everything is balled up in the corridor. One of the patients tries to kill himself by jumping from the forth floor. Stahov and Daniil rush to rescue him. Andrey still doesn’t realize who is next to him. Neither does Daniil. . Their paths diverge for a while. Stahov drowns himself in work completely. He’s hardly ever at home. His investigation still brings no results. The family atmosphere gets explosive. Having moved to Moscow from Saint Petersburg Olga cannot find herself in Moscow. . Left alone, she starts drinking, Stahov does not support her. The whole thing is dramatized by her daughter’s state. Andrey and Olga quarrel all the time and finally Olga leaves her husband. Daniil meets Kristina at the clinic and takes an interest to her, they start spending a lot of time together. They find common ground- art. Kristina falls in love. Stahov doesn’t know anything yet. He is wrapped up in work. A short time later, a new act of suicide is committed. Kirill Vasilenko, a famous adman , kills himself by slashing his wrists. His body was found drowned in the bath.
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Andrey finds out that Kirill also withdrew a large sum of money from his account the day before. Kirill’s sister, who has found his body, tells that a singer named Sofia was her brother’s lover, and he bequeathed her his apartment right before the suicide. As for Sofia, she said that she had seen Kirill hanging out with a stranger lately, and they used to have long conversations. However, she fails to describe the man. Sofia also said Kirill left no money to her. The struggle is befogged by the fact, that Mihail Zhuravkin, Andrey’s boss, remains skeptical about Stahov’s theory and the fact that these “pseudo-suicides” are not worth much . He is angry and requires more facts. Reports are what he actually cares about. But Andrey does not give in. He finds out that the police detained Kirill under strange circumstances the day before his death and that it happened in a poor area–in the waste where drug addicts hang out. There he finds a drug addict’s burnt body and prescription drugs from the clinic, where his daughter is being treated. Afrer detectives come to the clinic, Marina Nikolaevna learns about the lost medicines. She is about to lose the license. She realizes who is to blame and fires Rita. Rita is hurt. She looks for support from Daniil, she thinks she can still rely on him, but doesn’t find it. Daniil pushes her away. Rita decides to take revenge. She comes to Stahov and tells that Daniil is linked to the theft of drugs from the clinic. Marina Nikolaevna turns out to be friends with Mikhail Zhuravkin, Andrey’s boss ,the one in charge of the investigational department. She asks him for help. He promises to sort the things out. He orders Stahov to end his vain suspicions and to close this case.
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Time is running out. Andrey asks his colleague to check the files on the recent suicide cases for the last two years. There is a file attachment to one of the cases: an audio recording. Stahov listens to it and hears some abnormal noise. Having sent the recording to the laboratory, Andrey listens to it again and hears two men speaking before the self-murder is committed, someone asking for ice and someone’s footsteps walking away. Andrey listens over and over again feeling like he’s already heard this voice somewhere before. Meanwhile doctors let Kristina go home for a weekend. Hearing her parents fighting again, she steals her father’s gun and goes to St. Petersburg to take revenge on her attackers but lacks the courage of her convictions and just threatens them with the gun. Olga is worried about Kristina. Andrey is too busy to look for his daughter but somehow he is sure she’s going to be fine. Kristina comes back to Moscow but does not want to go home. She finds Daniil and asks him to shelter her for a while. He takes her to his studio and locks her in there. Stahov feels he’s about to solve the crimes. The clues bring him to Daniil and asks him about the medicines stolen from the clinic. Daniil doesn’t deny anything. Daniel says he just tries to help drug addicts like they do in drug-related emergency centers all over the world. He believes this way , he was making them safer for the society. While talking to Stahov Daniil asks the waiter for ice. Suddenly all the pieces in Andrey’s puzzle fall into place. Stahov realizes whom he is sitting face to face to. However, he can’t take Daniil under arrest, as he holds Kristina as a hostage.
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Daniil makes a condition. He will let Kristina go, if Stahov promises him to keep him out of prison, forget about him and stop investigating the case. Stahov agrees. They go to Daniil’s studio. A conflict between Daniil and Stahov breaks out in the studio. Seeing Daniel win, Kristina tries to help her father, she has his gun with her. She points it at Daniel, shoots but misses. Daniil manages to escape just in the nick of time. Stahov and Kristina return home, where Olga is already waiting for them. The family reunites. After a while Rita helps Andrey catch Daniil. There’s enough evidence to convict him but Andrey is ordered to let him go. Andrey is left with nothing. Daniil re-emerges somewhere in Europe…
by Andres Puustusmaa
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«CAST»
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Sergey Koleshnya
Andrey Stakhov
Kirill Kyaro
Sergey Vinogradov
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Kati Outinen
Marina Nikolaevna Kristina Stakhova
Oksana Sherbakova
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Rita Malysheva
Kristina Kuzmina
Olga Stakhova
Oksana Fandera
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Mikhail Zhuravkin
Lembit Ulfsak
Kirill Vasilenko
Sergey Gubanov
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Frank Doyle
Frank Boyle
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CREW
Director/Scriptwriter
Andres Puustusmaa
Director of Photography
Timo Salminen
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Production Designer
Rostislav Zakrochinsky
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Costume Designer
Eugen Tamberg
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Sound Designer
Valter Yakovlev
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