---
title: 'The Killers (1956)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Andrei Tarkovsky'
released: '1956-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 19
genres:
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-killers-1956'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052330/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Killers (1956)

1956 · 19 min · Thriller · Soviet Union

Original title: Убийцы

## Synopsis

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 Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK).

## Credits

- **Director:** [Andrei Tarkovsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrei-tarkovsky), [Aleksandr Gordon](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-gordon)
- **Screenplay:** [Andrei Tarkovsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrei-tarkovsky), [Aleksandr Gordon](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-gordon), [Ernest Hemingway](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-hemingway)
- **Director of Photography:** [Aleksandr Rybin](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-rybin)

## Cast

- [Andrei Tarkovsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrei-tarkovsky)
- [Aleksandr Gordon](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-gordon)
- [Vasily Shukshin](https://cinepixo.com/people/vasily-shukshin)

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