The Killers

Crime, Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Marika Beiku

Status Released

Release Date 1956-01-01

Storyline

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.