''A Simple Death'' () is a 1985 Soviet

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by Alexander Kaidanovsky, based on

Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Tolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; ,Throughout Tolstoy's whole life, his name was written as using Reforms of Russian orthography#The post-revolution re ...

's ''

The Death of Ivan Ilyich ''The Death of Ivan Ilyich'' (also Romanized ''Ilich'', ''Ilych'', ''Ilyitch''; ), first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of th ...

''. It was screened in the

Un Certain Regard (; 'A Certain Glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob. The section presents 20 films with unusua ...

section at the

1987 Cannes Film Festival The 40th Cannes Film Festival took place from 7 to 19 May 1987. French-Italian actor Yves Montand served as jury president for the main competition. French filmmaker Maurice Pialat won the ''Palme d'Or'', the festival's top prize, for the drama ...

Cast

* Valeriy Priyomykhov as Ivan Ilyich (voiced by Alexander Kaidanovsky) *

Alisa Freindlich Alisa Brunovna Freindlich (born 8 December 1934) is a Russian actress. Since 1983, Freindlich has been a leading actress of the Bolshoi Drama Theater in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She was awarded the title of the People's Artist of the USSR in ...

as Praskovya Fyodorovna, Ivan Ilyich's wife * Vytautas Paukste as Mikhail Danilovich, doctor * Mikhail Danilov as narrator * Karina Moritts as Liza * Tamara Timofeyeva as nanny * Stanislav Churkin as priest * Anatoli Khudoleyev as Pyotr * Kolya Vaskevich as Vanya

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* 1985 films 1985 drama films 1980s Russian-language films Films directed by Alexander Kaidanovsky Simple Death, A Films about death Lenfilm films Soviet black-and-white films Soviet drama films Russian drama films Russian black-and-white films {{USSR-film-stub