{{Short description|2001 film by Dmitriy Meshiev}} {{Infobox film | name = Mechanical Suite | image = Mechanical_Suite.jpg | caption = | director = Dmitry Meskhiev | writer = Gennadiy Ostrovskiy | starring = {{Unbulleted list|Mikhail Porechenkov|Sergei Garmash|Konstantin Khabensky|Sergei Makovetsky|Andrei Zibrov}} | music = Leonid Fyodorov<br>Svyatoslav Kurashov<br>Vladimir Volkov | cinematography = Sergei Machilsky | editing = Tamara Lipartia | producer = Olga Vasilieva<br>Svetlana Slityuk | story = | studio = | released = {{film date|2001}} | runtime = 97 minutes | country = Russia | language = Russian }} '''''Mechanical Suite''''' ({{langx|ru|Механическая сюита|Mekhanicheskaya syuita}}) is a 2001 Russian comedy-drama film directed by Dmitry Meskhiev.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://russia.tv/brand/show/brand_id/6715/|publisher=Russia-1|title=О проекте: Механическая сюита}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|date=January 2002|issue=1|url=http://kinoart.ru/archive/2002/01/n1-article4|publisher=Iskusstvo Kino|title=Механическая пьеса для неоконченного пианино. «Механическая сюита», режиссёр Дмитрий Месхиев|author=Dmitri Bykov|author-link=Dmitri Bykov|access-date=2018-01-01|archive-date=2018-01-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180102012734/http://kinoart.ru/archive/2002/01/n1-article4|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enc_cinema/11408/%D0%9C%D0%95%D0%A5%D0%90%D0%9D%D0%98%D0%A7%D0%95%D0%A1%D0%9A%D0%90%D0%AF|publisher=Энциклопедия кино|title=Механическая сюита}}</ref>
The film is based on the story ''Brothers'' by Janusz Głowacki.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.khabenskiy.com/filmography/filmography-the-mechanical-suite-2001/|publisher=Konstantin Khabenskiy's International Site|title=The Mechanical Suite (2001)}}</ref>
==Plot== Kolya (Sergei Golovkin), an employee from the patent department of a plant, goes to Lykovo near St. Petersburg for the weekend and dies of a heart attack. The administration of the plant decides to transport the body to the homeland of the deceased for burial. For this purpose two people are sent on a business trip: Markerants (Sergei Garmash), who at any time can develop an ulcer, and business-minded Mityagin (Mikhail Porechenkov).
On the way, Mityagin offers Markerants to drink a toast in the dining car for Kolya, for destiny, for their country. All ends with Markerants giving all the money collected by the plant for Kolya's burial to some woman named Lyuyba (Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya).
Having lost their travel money, they go on an adventure and drive with the stiff in a normal train compartment. A chance passenger, Edouard (Konstantin Khabensky), who has stolen an item worth $50,000 from a factory, drops his immensely heavy suitcase on the dead man's head. Edouard ends up thinking that he is the culprit in Kolya's death. To get rid of the evidence, he throws the corpse out the window. The greedy Mityagin decides to take advantage of the situation and demands money so that he will not to give out the "murderer". This leads to everyone subsequently finding themselves under the persecution of the mafia and the police.
==Cast== *Mikhail Porechenkov as Mityagin *Sergei Garmash as Markerants *Konstantin Khabensky as Edouard *Sergei Makovetsky as operative officer Plyuganovskiy *Andrei Zibrov as machinist Viktor *Oksana Bazilevich as striptease dancer Asya *Aleksandr Bashirov as man in a police car *Zoya Buryak as beer seller *Irina Rozanova as Olga *Sergei Golovkin as deceased Kolya *Yevgenia Dobrovolskaya as Lyuba *Yury Kuznetsov as pathologist *Mikhail Wasserbaum as Olga's lover *Aleksandr Fatyushin as Major Lebedev *Zinaida Sharko as Plyuganovskiy's mother
==Awards== *Yevgenia Dobrovolskaya received the Best Supporting Actress prize at the Nika (2001),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kino-nika.com/page91556.html|title=Лауреаты Национальной кинематографической премии «Ника» за 2001 год|publisher=Nika Awards}}</ref> Golden Aries (2001) <ref>{{cite web|url=http://kinopressa.ru/white-elephant/httpkinopressa-rupage_id371|publisher=Russian Guild of Film Critics|title=2001|access-date=2018-01-01|archive-date=2016-03-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314035418/http://kinopressa.ru/white-elephant/httpkinopressa-rupage_id371|url-status=live}}</ref> and "Constellation" (2001) awards.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lenta.ru/news/2001/08/06/sozvezdie/|publisher=Lenta.ru|title=Актёрское «Созвездие» закончилось окончательно}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|tt0309853}}
Category:Russian crime comedy-drama films Category:2001 black comedy films Category:2001 films Category:Films directed by Dmitry Meskhiev Category:2000s crime comedy-drama films Category:Russian black comedy films Category:2001 Russian films Category:2001 Russian-language films Category:Russian-language adventure comedy-drama films Category:Russian-language crime comedy-drama films {{2000s-Russia-film-stub}} Category:Russian-language black comedy films