top-100-film
75-80

The Tuner / Nastroiuvach

Year:

2004

Studio:

Ukraine, Pygmalion Production Film Co, Odesa Film Studio

Duration:

155 min

Director:

Kira Muratova

Writer:

Serhii Chetvertkov, Yevhen Holubenko, Kira Muratova

Cinematographer:

Hennadii Kariuk

Cast:

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.