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Retrospective Aki Kaurismaki

I Hired a Contract Killer

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Film info

  • Country:Finska, VB, Njemačka, Švedska, Francuska
  • Director:Aki Kaurismäki
  • Year:1990
  • Duration:79'
  • Actors:Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke, Kenneth Colley, T.R. Bowen

Storyline

After fifteen years' service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide, but can't go through with it, so he hires a contract killer in a seedy bar to murder him at some unspecified time in the future. But almost immediately he meets and falls in love with Margaret, a flower-seller, which makes Henri realise that his life has some meaning after all. But when he goes back to the bar to cancel the contract, he finds it has been demolished - and there's no way he can get in touch with the killer...

Aki Kaurismaki is the most famous Finnish film director. His films are very short (he says a film should never run longer than 90 minutes, and many of his films are nearer 70), eccentric parodies of various genres (road movies, film noir, rock musicals), populated by lugubrious hard-drinking Finns and set to eclectic soundtracks, typically based around '50s rock'n'roll.

Screening schedule

  • 27.08.2016.

    Borovo theatre

    14:00h

Tickets for screenings at Cinestar Vukovar, Danubian Sand Island, Borovo Cinema, Valpovo culture center, Centar znanja Vinkovci, Vucedol museum are free. For screenings at locations - Terrace of Agency for Waterways and Castle Eltz Park admission is 15 HRK. Tickets.

Festival hosts
  • Discovery
  • Grad Vukovar
  • Hrvatski dom Vukovar
Partners
  • Austrijski kulturni forum
  • Bobi
  • Grad Zagreb
  • Hrvatska turistička zajednica
  • Hrvatski audiovizualni centar
  • Ministarstvo kulture
  • Vukovarsko-srijemska županija
  • Norveška ambasada
Sponsors
  • American Express
  • AutoWill
  • Badel Pelinkovac
  • Borovo
  • Coca Cola
  • Elatus
  • Filmofeel
  • Hrvatska banka za obnovu i razvitak
  • Iločki podrumi
  • PPD
  • Startas
  • Technomarket

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