The Killers (1956)

Original title

Убийцы

Directed by

Aleksandr Gordon, Andrei Tarkovsky

Genre

thriller film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

19 min

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 106 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two hired killers enter a diner in a small town, looking for a man named Ole Andreson. The cook and a customer named Nick Adams are caught in the tense encounter, leading Nick to try to warn Ole.

understatedminimalistsuspensefulrestrainedbleakatmosphericuneasyconversation-driven

What happens

The Killers (Russian: Убийцы, translit. Ubiytsy) is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr Gordon. The film is based on the short story "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, written in 1927. It was Tarkovsky's first film, produced when he was a student at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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