I'm Staying

I'm Staying

2007 · 112 min · ★ 6.5 · Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Many people assume that life does not end after death. Not Dr. Tyrsa, practical and skeptical man, who never believed in this nonsense. However, thanks to the bowling accident, he finds himself in a desert land with people like him not belonging to this world yet not accepted into the other. Now Dr. Tyrsa realizes that the life he used to live was not so bad, and he's got something worth returning to.

Directed by Karen Oganesyan · Written by Alyona Zvantsova

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Andrey Krasko Victor Tyrsa
Fyodor Bondarchuk instructor-guide of souls
Elena Yakovleva Natalya Tyrsa
Nelly Uvarova Evgeniya Tyrsa
Andrey Sokolov Gleb Shahov
Vladimir Yepifantsev Anton
Alyona Bondarchuk Anna
Irina Grineva Yulya
Galina Polskikh Svetlana Yurievna
Konstantin Solovyov Boris
Georgi Martirosyan Yuriy Zatonskiy
Yevgeni Zharikov Oleg Saprunov

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