Three Stories (1997)
- Original title
- Три истории
- Directed by
- Kira Muratova
- Genre
- anthology film, crime comedy film
- Country
- Ukraine, Russia
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 19 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Three separate crime stories are told. In one, a man hides a murder while chatting with a friend. In another, a hospital worker kills a mother she dislikes. In the third, a girl tries to poison an elderly neighbor.
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What happens
Three Stories (Russian: «Три истории», romanized: Tri istorii, Ukrainian: «Три історії», romanized: Try istorii) is a 1997 Russian-Ukrainian crime comedy film directed by Kira Muratova. It was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival. The picture won the Special Jury Prize at Kinotavr. The film is dedicated to the memory of Sergei Gerasimov. Among seven other films by Muratova, it is included in the list of List of the 100 best films in the history of Ukrainian cinema. The film is an anthology film, featuring three different stories. In Boiler Room No. 6, two friends converse in a boiler room. One of them keeps complaining about an unbearable neighbor who is stalking him both at home and at work. What he is not mentioning in the conversation is that he has already killed her and hidden her body. Ophelia focuses on a misanthropic hospital archivist, who is particularly resentful of mothers who abandon their children. So, she proceeds to murder one these uncaring mothers. In A Girl and Death, an old man reluctantly befriends a little girl from his neighborhood, though she irritates him. The girl poisons his water, with the expectation that she and her mother will take over his room after his death. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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