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
RU
