‘Kajillionaire’ Review: A Strange, Beautiful, and Gentle Story of Lost and Found Home
'Kajillionaire' is a touching and eccentric story about family, crime, and the search for belonging.
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Olya, her brother Igor and their cousin Vera with her husband Maksim come to a village for their granddad's funeral to take the fortune he left. Vera needs money badly and she is planning to find it whatever it takes. Well-off Olya and Igor loathe their cousin's behavior. The lost connection with their relatives and their granddad's strange house, in which a new mistress is setting her rules, will make the guys look at what is happening from a different side and see each other's real faces.
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Olya, her brother Igor and their cousin Vera with her husband Maksim come to a village for their granddad's funeral to take the fortune he left. Vera needs money badly and she is planning to find it whatever it takes. Well-off Olya and Igor loathe their cousin's behavior. The lost connection with their relatives and their granddad's strange house, in which a new mistress is setting her rules, will make the guys look at what is happening from a different side and see each other's real faces.
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Genre:Drama
Written By:Sofia Shamova
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