What if your writers' room became a hit squad? This Russian comedy kills.
Contemporary Moscow. A publisher hires a band of hack writers to kill a famous author so she can steal his book. They find that committing a murder in real life is not quite as simple as writing about one in a thriller novel.
Writing
Deliciously self-aware script about hacks writing hacks.
Acting
Kutsenko's sweaty desperation as the washed-up Sizukhin.
Direction
Dual directors somehow keep this tonal mess coherent.
Director
Vladimir Zaykin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film satirizes Russia's post-Soviet publishing gold rush, where 'author brands' became more valuable than actual writing.
Kutsenko and Spivakovskiy improvised most of their bickering scenes, drawing from actual decades of competitive friction in Russian theatre circles.
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