The Killers
Jan 01 1956
•0h 19m
•Crime, Drama
The Killers 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 State Institute of Cinematography.
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Yuliy Fayt
Nick Adams
Aleksandr Gordon
George
Valentin Vinogradov
Al
Vadim Novikov
Max
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