Marika Beiku & Aleksandr Gordon & Andrei Tarkovsky – Ubiytsy AKA The Killers (1956) (HD)
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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.
Tarkovsky worked with a pair of co-directors on The Killers, but by all accounts he was the dominant creative force. There are three scenes in the movie. Scenes one and three, which take place in a diner, were directed by Tarkovsky. Scene two, set in a boarding house, was directed by Gordon. Ostensibly there was another co-director, Marika Beiku, working with Tarkovsky on the diner scenes, but according to Gordon “Andrei was definitely in charge.” In a 1990 essay, Gordon writes:
”The story of how we shot Hemingway’s The Killers is a simple one. In the spring Romm told us what we would have to do–shoot only indoors, use just a small group of actors and base the story on some dramatic event. It was Tarkovsky’s idea to produce The Killers. The parts were to be played by fellow students–Nick Adams by Yuli Fait, Ole Andreson the former boxer, of course, by Vasily Shukshin. The murderers were Valentin Vinogradov, a directing student, and Boris Novikov, an acting student. I played the cafe owner.”
General Container: Matroska Runtime: 20 min 38 s Size: 1.40 GiB Video Codec: x264 Resolution: 1428x1080 Aspect ratio: 4:3 Frame rate: 23.976 fps Bit rate: 9 486 kb/s BPP: 0.257 Audio #1: Russian 1.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (AC3 | 192 Kbps | 16 bits | 48 KHz | mono)
Language(s):Russian
Subtitles:English