The Humble Cemetery

The Humble Cemetery — Plot

The main character Vorobei is a professional grave digger and alcohol addict, who runs away from hospital to dig graves instead of treating his head broken by his brother. He comes to cemetery and keeps on working, instead of his friends' advice to stay in the hospital. The world of death turns out to be surrounded by corruption, satanic money-making, cemetery mafia and lots of vodka.

• Release date
• December 1, 1989
• Runtime
• 103 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Aleksandr Itygilov

The Humble Cemetery — Cast

Vladimir Gostyukhin Lyokha Vorobei Lev Durov Petrovich Nina Ruslanova Valentina Ivanova Lev Borisov Kutya Olga Mateshko Aleksey Serebryakov Mishka Viktor Avilov Stas Vitaliy Shapovalov Aleksandr Raevsky