The Tuner / Nastroiuvach
2004
Ukraine, Pygmalion Production Film Co, Odesa Film Studio
155 min
Kira Muratova
Serhii Chetvertkov, Yevhen Holubenko, Kira Muratova
Hennadii Kariuk
Heorhii Deliiev, Alla Demidova, Renata Litvinova, Nina Ruslanova, Sergei Bekhterev, Natalia Buzko, Zhan Daniel, Uta Kilter, Volodymyr Komarov, Leonid Pavlovskyi, Anatolii Paduka
Andrii lacks a stable income and strength of character; his serious decisions are influenced by his willful mistress, the fatal beauty Lina. New prospects for Lina, and thus for Andrii, open up after a chance meeting with two friends, wealthy widows, for whom Andrei tunes a piano. An ironic crime story about the lives of petty crooks gradually turns into a commentary on the unbearable social and economic conditions of our time and the search for a way out: the older generation is fueled by the “aristocratic” wealth and conventions of the past, while the younger generation, despite their hesitation, eventually obeys the laws of savage capitalism.