The Killers
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.
Casts & Crew
Yuli Fait
Aleksandr Gordon
Vadim Novikov
Yuriy Dubrovin
Andrei Tarkovsky
Vasiliy Shukshin
Also Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
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