To Kill the Evening

To Kill the Evening (2003) is a drama film directed by Elena Zhigaeva.

Certain circumstances force the successful businessman Viktor to stay in a small seaside city longer than he had planned. It’s the New Year’s Eve. To “kill the evening”, the hero gets acquainted with a young salesgirl, Lyuba. Quite unexpectedly, they fall passionately and fatally in love… A lyrical variation on the theme of a gallant prince and a poor Cinderella, starring the inveterate lady-killer of Russian screen Sergey Zhigunov (“The Princess on a Bean”) and the young primadonna of the Aleksandrinsky Theatre Yuliya Marchenko (“Swan Paradise”), with the musical accompaniment of the famous Gypsy group “Loiko”.

Cast

Aleksey Panin

Sergey Zhigunov

Nataliya Vdovina

Tatyana Agafonova

Irina Shevchuk

Igor Muzhzhuhin

Aleksandr Lyrchikov

Yuliya Marchenko

Olga Khokhlova