The Killers. Andrei Tarkovsky and Alexander Gordon, 1956.
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Edition screened: Included on Criterion Blu-ray #176 Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Killers’, released 2015. Russian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 19 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
A short film made by Tarkovsky and several classmates while they were students at Vsesoyuznyj Gosudarstvennyj Institut Kinematografii (VGIK). Tarkovsky’s screenplay submitted to his instructors for this project was the first western work approved to be filmed.