The Killers

1956 · 19 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 3,882 VOTES · DIR. Marika Beiku, Andrei Tarkovsky, Aleksandr Gordon

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.

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Dialogue Timeline — 201 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:13 riped from dvd sub by boso for opensubtitles.org
00:01:25 Cast:
00:02:04 I don't know.
00:02:30 There's assorted sandwiches, eggs and bacon, eggs and ham, liver-
00:03:14 Soda, fruit juice, ginger ale.
00:03:39 So you think that's right?
00:04:01 The town's full of bright boys.
00:05:00 That's a good one. - Oh, he's a thinker.
00:05:27 Don't worry. We know.
00:06:00 I'm going back to the kitchen
00:06:44 - I don't know. - What do you think?
00:07:20 We're going to kill a Swede.
00:07:52 You ought to go to the movies more.
00:08:22 You talk too goddamn much.
00:09:10 That's one of those things you never know at the time.
00:13:08 Maybe.
00:14:37 So long, bright boy. You got a lot of luck.
00:15:56 and they said they were going to kill you.
00:16:45 Don't you want me to go to the police?
00:17:59 Couldn't you get out of town?
00:19:16 Thanks for coming around.
00:20:15 Of course they'll kill him.
00:21:03 It's awful to think about.

Cast & Characters

Yuliy Fayt Nick Adams Aleksandr Gordon George Valentin Vinogradov Al Vadim Novikov Max Yuriy Dubrovin 1st Customer Andrei Tarkovsky 2nd Customer Vasiliy Shukshin Ole Andreson Ermengeld Konovalov Sam

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed201
Dialogue density10.6 lines / min
First line00:00:13
Final line00:21:03

Production Record

DirectorMarika Beiku, Andrei Tarkovsky, Aleksandr Gordon
LanguageRussian
IMDb votes3,882