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The Killers (1956)

The Killers (1956)

Drama Crime
Release Date: 1956, January 1
Directors: Andrei Tarkovsky, Aleksandr Gordon, Marika Beiku
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: VGIK, VGIK
Cast: Vadim Novikov, Vasiliy Shukshin, Yuriy Dubrovin, Ermengeld Konovalov

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

short film film noir