Three Stories (1997) | Streaming Guide & Showtimes
Three Stories (1997) — A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades Streaming on Criterion Channel.
Three Stories (1997) Storyline
A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor’s five-year-old daughter “all the abomination of her lumpen existence”. The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic.
Full Cast & Crew
- Sergey Makovetskiy as Tikhomirov
- Leonid Kushnir as Gena
- Zhan Daniel as Venya
- Renata Litvinova as Ophelia
- Ivan Okhlobystin as doctor
- Oleg Tabakov as old man
- Liliya Murlykina as little girl
- Natalya Buzko as girl in the maternity hospital
- Alexandra Svenskaya as mother
- Aleksei Shevchenkov as homosexual
- Yevhen Holubenko
- Sofiya Belska
Why Watch Three Stories?
The Vibe: Three Stories is a captivating and well-crafted crime movie that firmly establishes itself as a must-watch from 1997. The pacing and atmosphere are perfectly calibrated to keep you engaged from start to finish.
Fan Reception: While holding a polarized score of 6.1/10, it retains a dedicated audience who appreciate its specific stylistic choices and unique premise.
Who Should Watch It: Highly recommended for general audiences and genre enthusiasts. If you enjoy character-driven arcs layered with crime-specific tropes, this deserves a spot on your watchlist.
Movie Details & Production
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