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2차 세계대전이 한창이던 1941년 혹한의 겨울, 독일군에게 크게 패한 러시아군은 뿔뿔이 흩어지게 된다. 이후 승리에 도취된 독일군들 앞에 ‘레드 고스트’라는 보이지 않는 러시아 저격수가 나타나고, 그들을 한 명씩, 한 명씩 사살하면서 공포에 떨게 만든다. 한편, 전방으로 향하던 소수의 러시아군은 ‘레드 고스트’의 행적을 쫓던 독일군과 마주하게 되고, 곧이어 그의 진짜 정체가 밝혀지게 되는데…
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Based on the novel by Booker Prize Winner Ludmila Ulitskaya, The Funeral Party is set in August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns nursing him as he fades from this world. Their reminiscences of the dying man and of their lives in Russia are punctuated by debates and squabbles: Whom did Alik love most? Should he be baptized before he dies, as his alcoholic wife, Nina, desperately wishes, or be reconciled to the faith of his birth by a rabbi who happens to be on hand? And what will be the meaning for them of the Yeltsin putsch, which is happening across the world in their long-lost Moscow but also right before their eyes on CNN?
